RED SQUIRREL 

 Soiurus hudsonicus gymnicus. 



The red squirrel, or, "chickaree," with its three species and 

 fifteen sub-species, is found from Alaska to Arizona and is one of 

 the most common of the squirrel family. It is also one of the 

 smallest, its entire length being only twelve inches, of which the tail 

 measures five. In form it is less graceful than some others as the 

 legs appear to be scrawny in comparison with the body, nor is its 

 coloring of reddish brown above and white beneath as attractive 

 as that of the gray or the fox squirrels. During the winter months 

 this brown becomes more reddish and the pure white is replaced by 

 a grayish tint. In this new garb the little creature frolics on the very 

 coldest days, thus proving that, whatever its inferiority in size, it is 

 second to none of its kind in energy and endurance. 



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