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It occasionally climbs trees, but usually lives under stumps 

 or logs in or at the edge of woods. It stores up quantities of 

 food, and is seldom seen in the winter months. 



We have an albino at the Museum of Zoology which was 

 caught near Ann Arbor by a cat, and I know of one other 

 seen near the city. 



The call of the chipmunk is a loud chirp or chuck, regu- 

 larly repeated and audible for a half-mile on still, frosty 

 mornings. It also has a bird-like chirp or rapid call. 



Sciurns hiidsonicus loquax. Southeastern Red-squirrel. — 

 This is the most abundant squirrel in the county. Owing to 

 its small size it was formerly not hunted ; it also easily adapted 

 itself to civilization and increased so rapidly that in places 

 it became a nuisance. It has been accused of driving off the 

 fox and gray squirrels, for which reason it was exterminated 

 from the University campus, where it formerly occurred. 



The red-squirrel is very noisy and has a number of calls, 

 chatters, and a whining cough which easily distinguishes it 

 from other squirrels. 



Several albinos have been taken in Washtenaw County, one 

 pure albino in Dexter Township in 1908, and one nearly pure 

 white, but with brownish dorsal stripe and tail, near Ann 

 Arbor in 1912. 



Sciurns carolinensis leucotis. Northern Gray Squirrel.— 

 Abundant in the county for many years after its settlement. To 

 the early settlers it was an injurious species, as it destroyed 

 much of their scanty corn crop; but in later years it furnished 

 much sport as well as a choice food for the table. Its chosen 

 habitat was the heavy forest of beech and sugar maples, and 

 with the cutting of these woods the gray squirrel has grad- 

 ually become rare, only a few now being found in the county. 



