has told me of a similar instance, and Thompson Seton makes mention 

 of another. The object of the association is unknown. Can any of my 

 readers offer any information, or give any further occurrences of this 



No. 3. Badger, Taxidea tnxus. 



nature? Badgers are too often killed at sight, which is to be deplored, 

 for they are too useful to be destroyed. While the fur has a certain value 

 it is hardly enough to make it worth while to kill them merely for that. 

 The scientific name is Taxidea taxus. Mr. J. D. Figgins has recently de- 

 scribed a subspecies. Phipps' Badger, T. 1. phippsi, from southwestern 

 Colorado. 



Leaving the carnivorous animals which have just been described we 

 come to the rodents, which group comprises by far the larger number of 

 the mammals to which we apply the term "small". They are easily identi- 

 fied by the large incisor teeth, two each in the upper and lower jaws. 

 Rabbits, while they also have long incisors, have four in the upper jaw, a 

 small pair behind the large front ones, and because of this and other 

 structural differences are now placed, together with the conies, in a sepa- 

 rate order, the Lagomorpha, which means literally having the form of a 

 hare. 



GRASSHOPPER MICE. 



The first of the rodents on our list are the Grasshopper Mice, or 

 Scorpion Mice as they are sometimes called, belonging to the genus 

 Onychomys, which is confined to western North America, ranging from the 

 plains of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, south to central Mexico, 

 -and east to western Minnesota and eastern Kansas. These animals are 



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