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STRANGE DWELLINGS, 



sages radiate, and from these other tunnels are driven. These 

 radiating burrows evidently serve two purposes, enabling the 

 animal to escape in any direction when alarmed, and serving to 

 conduct it to its feeding grounds. 



CANADA POUCHED RAT. 



{Plan of Bttrrow.) 



The Canada Pouched Rat is nearly a foot in length, and is 

 notable for the great development of its incisor teeth, which 

 project beyond the lip : and for the dimensions of its cheek- 

 pouches, which measure about three inches in length, and 

 extend as far as the shoulders. It was formerly thought that 

 the animal employed these pouches for the conveyance of earth 

 out of its burrow, but it is now known that it does not make 

 any such use of these natural pockets. 



