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NOTE. An abundance of instructive and entertaining 

 reading on squirrels is open to one who cares to study them 

 further. A general guide will be found in Stone and Cram's 

 " American Animals," with a list of books and scientific papers 

 relating to their classification, structure, etc. ; another list of 

 books is contained in the Appendix to my " Life of Mammals," 

 which also furnishes, in its chapter on the Rodents, a sketch 

 of the squirrel tribe generally, showing the relation between 

 our own and foreign species. Very full histories of eastern 

 and southern squirrels are to be read in Audubon and Bach- 

 man's great " Quadrupeds of North America," and in Mer- 

 riam's " Mammals of the Adirondacks." The " Journals" of 

 Thoreau, and the various books by Seton, Sharp, Abbott, 

 Blatchley, Lottridge, Cram ("Little Beasts of Field and 

 Wood"), and similar writers, include much pleasant informa- 

 tion upon these animals. A collection of essays by John 

 Burroughs is entitled " Squirrels " ; and " A Quintette of Gray- 

 coats," by Effie Bignell, is a story of squirrel life in a village 

 garden. An explanation of the origin and value of the food- 

 storing habit may be read in my book " The Wit of the Wild.' 



A RED SQUIRREL. 



