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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



SOLDIERS ENTICING GROUND SQUIRRELS FROM THEIR BURROWS 

 Tapping on the ground near the burrow, brought the little animals to the surface. 



this space was literally riddled with their 

 burrows. 



One morning one of the men called to me 

 saying that he thought he had one of the ground 

 squirrels trained. 



Taking my camera, I hurried out and found 

 a group of the men around one of the burrows 

 with the "trainer" drvimming with his fingers 

 just about it. One of the pictures accompany- 

 ing this article shows one of the men drumming 

 over the hole. 



It was necessary to exercise patience, but at 

 last we were rewarded by the appearance of 

 the ground squirrels, sometimes as many as 

 three at a time. They would hurry out and 

 scamper all around the burrow, until someone 

 moved. It was vital for the success of the 

 scheme to keep very still, for at the slightest 

 sound they would scurry into the holes again. 

 If they became frightened when far away from 

 their own burrows, they would run away from 

 them, and into any other one that happened to 



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GROUND SQUIRREL AT THE MOUTH OF ITS BURROW 

 The little animals fed fearlessly as long as the men were still. 



