traver] our pet chipmunk, UNCAS 385 



buds, and clings to the tip-most branches of the maples, eating the 

 buds and perhaps the yoimg keys. In autum he eats the seeds 

 from pine cones and himts nuts of all sorts to store away for his 

 winter food. In eating he holds his food like the chipmimk, sitting 

 up on his haunches with his bushy tail ciu"led over his back. 



The red squirrel becomes a dingy reddish gray in color, almost 

 inconspicuous when he sits huddled up on a bare branch, looking 

 very like a part of the tree; but his coat becomes brighter as spring 

 approaches and is distinctly red all during the summer. His home 

 is a hole in some big tree, and here the baby squirrels, from four to 

 six in a litter, appear in April. The hole also sen'^es as a store 

 house for food during the cold winter months, tho he comes out on 

 sunny days to find the food he has stored in other trees also. 



The red squirrel seems to be almost continually scolding some- 

 one for something. You cannot go thru a wood without hearing 

 foiu" or five of these saucy fellows htuHng invectives at you from 

 some near-by tree. His scolding voice is at first gutteral, and then 

 changes so suddenly to a falsetto key that it is quite amusing. 



The flv-ing sqiiirrel is fitted for jimiping from one tree to another 

 over considerable distances, because of a membrane stretched loosely 

 between the fore and hind legs, which senses him somewhat as 

 would a little parachute. All squirrels will, if compelled, jump 

 considerable distances, always spreading their legs far apart and 

 extending their tails as much as possible, to offer resistance to the 

 air and break the force of their fall. It has been said that squirrels 

 will cross streams on bits of floating bark, relying on the current or 

 perhaps also on the breeze, the biishy tail held aloft acting as a sort 

 of sail. The special adaptations to Hfe which the squ'rrel exhibits 

 are his bushy tail, rodent-like teeth which are continually growing, 

 his sharp claws, lithe body and limbs, quick movements and pro- 

 tective coloration. 



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