174 FAUNA AMERICANA. 



of the head two inches six lines ; of the ears 

 eleven lines ; of the trunk of the tail seven inches 

 six lines. 



Description. Superior parts of the head and 

 neck, as well as the back, covered with hairs, 

 gray at their base, and afterwards divided into 

 two or three zones, alternately of a clear fawn, 

 and black, which produces a general complexion 

 of gray, approaching to^yellow; sides of the 

 neck, and particularly the haunches, spotted with 

 white ; flanks slightly spotted with black, which 

 leaves the fawn colour nearly pure ; abdomen 

 white ; legs covered with gray hair at their base, 

 and reddish-fawn at their extremities; sides of the 

 head and snout reddish ', ears rounded, covered 

 with very short hair; whiskers black; tail com- 

 posed of hair marked with zones alternately fawn 

 and black, and terminated with white ; from 

 whence it results when the tail is flattened, that 

 it is surrounded from right to left with a white 

 line, then with a black line, and its middle fawn 

 colour, spotted with black. 



Variety. Blackish-gray, more or less approach- 

 ing black. 



Habit. Living in large troops and feeding on 

 nuts and grain ; very destructive to the produce 

 of the latter. In winter they retire to holes in 

 old trees where they have amassed their provi- 

 sions, and where they bring forth their young. 



Inhabit Pennsylvania and most parts of the 



