. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders . A flying leap. omy, and there is no doubt but that a flying squirrelcan sail a hundred feet or so through the air with allthe semblance of a long leap, but in reality the dis-tance covered laterally is not so very great. This 276 FAMILIAR LIFE IN FIELD AND FOREST. little creature is common all over the country, fromthe East to the West, as far as the plains. I haveoften seen him in Holderness, N. H., and he is com-mon at Profile Lake, Franconia Notch, 1ST. H. The nest of the flying squirrel is in a hole in atree.
. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders . A flying leap. omy, and there is no doubt but that a flying squirrelcan sail a hundred feet or so through the air with allthe semblance of a long leap, but in reality the dis-tance covered laterally is not so very great. This 276 FAMILIAR LIFE IN FIELD AND FOREST. little creature is common all over the country, fromthe East to the West, as far as the plains. I haveoften seen him in Holderness, N. H., and he is com-mon at Profile Lake, Franconia Notch, 1ST. H. The nest of the flying squirrel is in a hole in atree. The female bears from four to six youngabout the first of April or later. When capturedand tamed the little ones make most charming to the woodchuck, the flying squirrelone of the most profoundsleepers of all hibernatinganimals. He retires tohis nest early in Novem-ber, and does not reap-pear until the latter part ofMarch. The big relative of the gfiia red squirrel—an animal made of coarser clay— The Gray Squirrel. J is the Northern graysquirrel {Sciurus carolin
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