30 WILD NEIGHBORS CHAP. I 
Note. — An abundance of instructive and entertaining 
reading on squirrels is open to one who cares to study them 
further. A general guide will be found in Stone and Cram’s 
“ American Animals,” with a list of books and scientific papers 
relating to their classification, structure, ctc.; another list of 
books is contained in the Appendix to my “ Life of Mammals,” 
which also furnishes, in its chapter on the Rodents, a sketch 
of the squirrel tribe generally, showing the relation between 
our own and foreign species. Very full historics of eastern 
and southern squirrels are to be read in Audubon and Bach- 
man’s great “ Quadrupeds of North America,” and in Mer- 
riam’s “Mammals of the Adirondacks.” The “ Journals” of 
Thoreau, and the various books by Seton, Sharp, Abbott, 
Blatchley, Lottridge, Cram (“Little Beasts of Field and 
Wood”), and similar writers, include much pleasant informa- 
tion upon these animals. A collection of essays by John 
Burroughs is entitled “Squirrels”; and “ A Quintette of Gray- 
coats,” by Effie Bignell, is a story of squirrc] life ina village 
garden. An explanation of the origin and value of the food- 
storing habit may be read in my book “ The Wit of the Wild.’ 
A RED SQUIRREI, 
