500 THE MARMOT. 
eagerly sought after by the human inhabitants of the same country. The burrow of the 
Marmot is always dug in dry soil, and is seldom known to be at all above, or very much below, 
the line of perpetual snow. In these burrows the young Marmots are born, about three or four in 
BOBAC.—Arctomys bubac. 
average number. The burrow forms also a stronghold into which the Marmot can retire on the 
least alarm. It is so wary an animal that it always plants one of its number to act as a 
sentinel, and on the first symptom of danger, he gives the alarm cry, which is a signal for every 
Marmot to seek the recesses of its subterranean home. 
The Marmot is a clumsy looking animal, and is not very active. Its movements are 
rather siow, and devoid of that brilliant activity which distinguishes the Leopard Marmot. 
