126 ANIMAL COMPETITORS 
winter coat being paler and lacking the black 
side-stripe which so handsomely borders in 
summer the rufous mantle of the back. 
Red squirrels at home. The red squirrel’s 
home is properly in some hollow of a tree or 
A NORTHWESTERN RED SQUIRREL. 
From a Photograph by James A. Donaghy, Elphinstone, Manitoba. 
stump, sometimes low down and hence danger- 
ously exposed to foxes, weasels and snakes. 
Frequently he chooses to live in a hole beneath 
tree-roots or some old stone wall, adapting to 
his purpose an abandoned chipmunk burrow 
