The Fur Animals of Louisiana 



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— Drawn by Arthur Svihla. 

 Diagrams of muskrat hills showing location of nests and plunge holes. 



HOUSES AND RUNWAYS 



"The houses, hills, beds or nests, as they are called in various parts 

 of the state, are used as nests for the young, as safe feeding places and 

 as sleeping quarters. Both the male and female work to build the 

 house Usually an old feeding platform, with its approach, forms the 



