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winter coat being paler and lacking the black 

 side-stripe which so handsomely borders in 

 summer the rufous mantle of the back. 



Red squirrels at home. The red squirrel's 

 home is properly in some hollow of a tree or 



A NORTHWESTERN RED SQUIRREL. 

 From a Photograph by James A. Donaghy, Elphinstone, Manitoba. 



stump, sometimes low down and hence danger- 

 ously exposed to foxes, weasels and snakes. 

 Frequently he chooses to live in a hole beneath 

 tree-roots or some old stone wall, adapting to 

 his purpose an abandoned chipmunk burrow 



