. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders. Zoology. sions to gate, lie pouches 274 FAMILIAR LIFE IN FIELD AND FOREST. moderate distance. He also hangs around the kitchen way, and not infrequently enters the door in search of a few /,.,, fallen crumbs. On all his excur- -^ his burrow, not far from the front appears with his cheek so stufEed out that his eyes are half closed, but on his return his physiognomy has re- sumed its normal propor- tions. He is quite the opposite of the red squirrel in one re- spect—he is' quiet. Rarely he raises his voice above a
. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders. Zoology. sions to gate, lie pouches 274 FAMILIAR LIFE IN FIELD AND FOREST. moderate distance. He also hangs around the kitchen way, and not infrequently enters the door in search of a few /,.,, fallen crumbs. On all his excur- -^ his burrow, not far from the front appears with his cheek so stufEed out that his eyes are half closed, but on his return his physiognomy has re- sumed its normal propor- tions. He is quite the opposite of the red squirrel in one re- spect—he is' quiet. Rarely he raises his voice above a scolding murmur, which sounds like chip-chip-ur- r-r, chip-.' * He feeds on the sunflower ; Tlie nest of the chip- munk is in a hollow chamber about as large as a cocoanut at the end of a tunnel about two feet long, and six- teen inches below the surface of the ground. The female bears from four to six young about the latter part of April. One of the prettiest of our squirrels is the little, soft-eyed, velvet-coated flying squirrel {Sciuropterus. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938; Underwood, William Lyman, 1864-1929, phot. New York, D. Appleton and Company
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