Identifier: fourfootedamericwrig (find matches)
Title: Four-footed Americans and their kin
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934 Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945, ed Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946, ill
Subjects: Mammals Animal behavior
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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too, for Iclimbed up to what I thought was a Crows nest oneyear, and it had four queer little blind Squirrels in it.They took ever so long to grow, nearly three months,and after that I used to see the old ones sleeping in thenest in daytime. They seem to go out most morningand night. Do they sleep in winter? asked Dodo. Im not sure, said Rap ; sometimes Ive seen themin the winter and sometimes I have not. It depends upon the weather, said the Doctor. The Gray Squirrel does not really hibernate, but stayscurled up in bad weather like the Red Squirrel, just asin very cold places he nests in a hole; in a mediumclimate he uses either a hole or tree nest, and furthersouth usually a tree nest. One remarkable thing abouthim is that instead of storing his food in piles, or fillingrock or tree hollows, he makes a separate cache for eachnut, and exactly how he finds the place again, the verywisest of Wise Men is not sure. Some say it is by akeen sense of smell, others a good memory. For myself,
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The Gray Squirrel. MISCHIEF MAKERS 359 I think it would be easier to remember where a nut wasburied than to smell it through several inches of snowand frozen ground. Oli dear! sighed Dodo, if he has such a smelleras that, how he must choke when he lives in a woodwhere there are Skunks. One thing more about this popular Squirrel, whowith us, as you see, wears a light gray winter coat tingedwith brown. Further north he sometimes appears with-out rhyme or reason in a fine black coat, just as theScreech Owl is sometimes gray and sometimes red — aDichromatic Phase is what the Wise Men call this. If the Gray Squirrel changes his hue according towhere he lives, his cousin the great Fox Squirrel out-does even the Varying Hare. I will show you somecolored pictures of him in my Audubon and BachmansQuadrupeds, that I sent for to town last week. See, one is black with white nose and ears, one isgray with yellowish legs, and a third is yellowish brownwith white ears, nose, and a dark face. The c

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