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bed with care, and became torpid. Some six weeks having passed 

 without its appearing, or having received any food, I had it taken out 

 of the box, and brought into the parlour: it was inanimate and as round 

 as a ball, its nose being buried as it were in the lower part of its abdomen, 

 and covered by its tail; it was rolled over the carpet many times; but 



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Map illustrating approximate distribution of Woodchucks in eastern United States. 



Marmota monax (LiNN.). Type locality Maryland. Description as previously 

 given. 



Marmota m. canadensis (ERXLEBEN). Type locality Hudson Bay. Smaller than 



monax and general coloration decidedly more reddish brown; brownish black 



of crown extending below the eye. 

 Marmota m. ignavus (BANGS). (Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, I, 1899, p. 13.) Type 



locality Black Bay, Straits of Belle Isle, Labrador. Size about like canadensis 



but general color darker and skull shorter and broader. 



