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UNITED STATES OF AMEKICA. 



*C'alled by some writers Georgian Hamster, though it differs materially from the Hamsters of Europe 

 in its cheek pouches. The animal which follows has similar pouches ; but we have not the means of 

 ascertaining whether or no it is the same species. 



^Discovered by Lewis and Clark. See history of the expedition, vol. i, p. 289. 



{Described by Mr. Wilson. See American Ornithology, vol. vi. p. 59. 



JThis has always been confounded with the foregoing, but it is a different species. It abounds in those 

 parts of Pennsylvania which lie to the westward of the Allegany ridge. 



iThis is a nondescript. Itisabout the size of the Sciurus cinereus; of a mixed gray and tawnycolour; 

 and has beanled ears. Inhabits near Little Egg-harbour, New-Jersey. 



^The lower parts of the Chikaree are white; sides of a beautiful gray; along the top of the back a 

 rusty line; its ears are slightly tufted. 



rusty ne; s ears are sgy ue. 



**These have been described by Lewis and Clark; but we suspect that the Brown Squirrel is no other 

 than the Sciurus Hudmn iu,-s, No. 48 of Pennant. Arct. Zool. sometimes called the Pine Squirrel, from the 

 circumstance of it being found in the Pine Woods. 



aurass, a e ew or no aor a snge speces o s genus. 



g$A young Whale of this species was taken in the Delaware, in the vicinity of the Falls, in the latter 

 part of the year 1814 ; and exhibited at Philadelphia. 



IH'A Pike-headed Whale was caught some years since in the Delaware, near Reedy Island, and shown 

 in Philadelphia and New- York. 



