NATURAL HISTORY. 

 PTEROMYS. (Gr. Hrepov, a wing; five, a mouse.) 



Alplnus (Lat. Alpine), the Flying Squirrel. 



Mountains in America, where it lives among the dense pine 

 forests that abound there. Its colour is yellowish brown, and 



its length about a foot. 



ARCTOMYS. (Or. '' 



, a boar; ^f'f, a mouse.) 



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Marmotta, the Marmot. 



The ALPINE MARMOT is common in the mountainous 

 districts of Europe. It lives in burrows dug in the ground. 

 These burrows are something in the shape of a Y, one of tho 

 forks leading to its habitation, a kind of chamber lined with 



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