POCKET-GOPHERS IN THEIR HOME 



These peculiar creatures spend their lives underground, like the mole. The animal in the upper division 

 of the illustration is represented thrusting a mass of earth out of its burrow. In the lower division the 

 : interior of the " living-room" is shown ; the animal on the left is stretching the opening of a po:ket with 

 one paw while it thrusts in a fragment of potato with the other. The young pocket-gopher on the right 

 is eating in a characteristic attitude, the food being held between the paws. Just behind it, the opening 

 of the tunnel which connects the living-room with the animals' store-room may be distinguished. 



