548 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1887. 



sits on its haunches eating ; others are running about. Across th e mouth of the bur- 

 row, just ready to disappear into it, is another one, startled for tbe moment by the sud- 

 den appearance of a little burrowing owl that has alighted on one side of the burrow. 

 The owl and the dog are good friends and live together in the same burrow, but there 

 appears to be strained relations between the two for the moment» 



