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to the rocks behind. I made a dash for her, catching her by the end of 

 the tail, which resulted in snapping off the tail about midway. The 

 following year (1913) she was about again as usual, being easily 

 recognized by her stub tail (fig. 10). 



" We did not visit the quarry from 1913 until the latter part of 

 July, 1917. Just after a blast had been fired, which was the signal 

 to the squirrels that we were about to eat lunch, we saw two or three 

 of them coming down from the cliffs above. A few minutes later, 

 Granny suddenly appeared at the edge of the quarry. I called her. 



Fig. 12. — One of the party who would insist on sleeping beneath the pine 

 trees away from the tent, as seen on the morning of July 2^ at Burgess 

 Pass camp. Photograph by Walcott, 1917. 



' Granny,' and whistled. She immediately ran across the floor of 

 the quarry, jumped upon my foot and ran up my leg, finally sitting up 

 and begging for something to eat as she had done the years before. 

 There were three strange persons in the quarry, and she would not 

 go near them for several days until she had the opportunity of getting 

 acquainted. The striking feature of this incident is that this moun- 

 tain squirrel should have remembered through a period of four years, 

 and at once ran and jumped up on me as she had been accustomed to 

 do in the years before. 



