. Life-histories of northern animals [microform] : an account of the mammals of Manitoba. Mammals; Mammals; Mammifères; Mammifères. r th ^ ^ ft> I. r^ I I. i; (r. 860 Life-histories of Northern Animals thus get nuts faster than by picking them up themselves. In a burrow dug open in November I found over half a bushel of hickory nuts and ; Another opened in January by Audubon and Bachman is thus described:" "There was about a gill of wheat and buckwheat in the nest; but in the galleries we afterward dug out, we obtained about a quart of the beaked hazel nuts {Corylu
. Life-histories of northern animals [microform] : an account of the mammals of Manitoba. Mammals; Mammals; Mammifères; Mammifères. r th ^ ^ ft> I. r^ I I. i; (r. 860 Life-histories of Northern Animals thus get nuts faster than by picking them up themselves. In a burrow dug open in November I found over half a bushel of hickory nuts and ; Another opened in January by Audubon and Bachman is thus described:" "There was about a gill of wheat and buckwheat in the nest; but in the galleries we afterward dug out, we obtained about a quart of the beaked hazel nuts {Corylus rostrata), nearly a peck of acorns, some grains of Indian corn, about two quarts of buckwheat, and a very small quantity of grass seeds. The late Dr. John Wright, of Troy, in an interesting communication on the habits of several of our quadrupeds, informs us, in refer- ence to the species, that 'it is a most provident little creature, continuing to add to its winter store, if food is abundant, until driven in by the severity of the frost. Indeed, it seems not to know when it has enough, if we may judge by the surplus left in the spring, being sometimes a peck of corn or nuts for a single Squirrel.'" Evidently these two famous naturalists overlooked the fact, already noted, that spring is the time of the hard pinch. In Manitoba the serious gathering of supplies is confined, I think, to August and September, though they lose no oppor- tunity, while the weather continues warm, working from sun- rise till sunset, or even a little later, but never by night. DIURNAL ENEMIES So far as I have been able to observe the Chipmunk is strictly diurnal. Audubon depicts the barn owl—most noctur- nal of its tribe—with a Chipmunk in its claws; doubtless he had some good reason for this, but I do not know what it was. Among the Chipmunk's enemies are cats, Foxes, Weasels, hawks, and snakes, but the smaller Weasels are probably the most destructive of its foes. It has only one means o
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