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AFRICAN PORCUPINE. 



NORTH AMERICAN. 

 Gray Squirrel Sciurus carolinensis New York. 



Black Squirrel 



Fox Squirrel 



Southern Fox Squirrel . 



Red Squirrel 



Eastern Chipmunk 



Western Chipmunk .... 

 Parry's Sperinophile . 



Ohio. 



. . " ludoviciamis Kansas. 



niger Louisiana. 



. . " hudsoniits New York. 



. .Tamias stnatus " 



speciosus California. 



Citellus parryi Alaska. 



Thirteen-Lined Spermophile. .tipcrmophilus tridccem-lineatus. . Iowa. 



FOREIGN SPECIES. 



Malabar Hill Squirrel Sciurus malabaricus S. India. 



Indian Hill Squirrel " Mcolor N. India. 



Prevost Squirrel " prevosti Malayana. 



Golden-Bellied Squirrel " aurcigaster Mexico. 



Columbia Fire-Backed Squirrel variabilis S. America. 



No collection of Rodents is worthy of acceptance by the 

 public without a fair representation of Porcupines. The 

 most wonderful species is the African Porcupine, (Hystrix 

 cristata), which when disturbed erects a threatening array 

 of enormously-long, shining black-and-white quills that are 



