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Spermophiles. The destructive animals 

 that form the subject of Vernon Bailey's 

 Bulletin (Department of Agriculture) on the 

 prairie ground squirrels of the Mississippi 

 Valley, belong to the genus Spe?-mophilus, 

 and are commonly known as spermophiles. 

 The name is derived from the Greek words 

 (Tirtpfxa, seed, and <piK7v, to love, in allusion 

 to the fact that seeds form a large propor- 

 tion of the food of the species. In the Old 

 World the spermophiles are known as sous- 

 liks, while in America they are popularly 

 called gophers or ground squirrels. The 

 term gopher, however, belongs properly to a 

 very different group of animals, to which it 

 should be restricted, namely, the pocket 

 gophers, which have external cheek pouches, 

 and resemble the moles in living under 

 ground and throwing up little mounds along 

 the courses of their subterranean tunnels. 

 Ground squirrel is a less objectionable name, 

 because these animals really are ground 

 squirrels; the term is, however, commonly 

 applied to the chipmunks belonging to the 

 related genus Tamias. Spermophilus is a 



