STRIPED DOR MOUSE. 
the Chrnquaquin, or chefnut. Nature has given to them, as to the 
Hamfter *, a fine conveniency for colle&ting its provifions, having fur- 
nifhed them with pouches. within their ‘cheeks, which they fill with 
mayz, and other articles of food, and fo convey them to their ma- 
gazines. 
Thofe of Sibiria live chiefly on feeds, and particularly on the 
kernels of the Cembra, or Stone Pine; and thefe they hoard up in 
fuch quantities, that ten or fifteen pounds of the moft choice have 
been found in a fingle magazine +. 
They pafs the whole winter either in fleep or in eating. During 
the fevere feafon, they very rarely ftir out, at left as long as their 
provifions laft; but if by an unexpected continuance of bad wea- 
ther their provifions fail, they will then fally out, and dig under 
ground in cellars where apples are kept, or into barns where mayz is 
ftored, and make great devaftations. They will even enter houfes, 
and eat undifmayed, before the inhabitants, any corn they chance to 
meet with {. The Cat makes great havock among them, being at all 
feafons as great an enemy tothemas to domeftic Mice. It is hunger 
alone that tames them. They are naturally of a very wild nature, will 
bite moft feverely,.and cannot by any means be rendered familiar. 
They are remarkably nice in the choice of their food, when the vari- 
ety of autumnal provifions gives opportunity. They have been ob- 
ferved, after having ftuffed their pouches with the grains of rye, to 
fling it out when they meet with wheat, and to replace the rye with 
the more delicious corn. 
Their fkins, form a trifling article of commerce, being brought 
over among /e menue pelliterie, the fmall furs, and ufed for the lining. 
of ladies cloaks. 
In Sibiria they are killed with blunt arrows, or caught in fall-traps. 
About the Lena, the boys. go out in the amorous feafon of thefe- 
little animals, and, ftanding behind a tree, mimic the noife of the 
females, which brings the males within reach of their fticks, with which 
* Hift, Quad, N® 324, t Pallas, Nov: Sp. an. 379s $ Dz Pratz, ii. 68. 
they: 
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