JUNE 113 



THE CHIPMUNK GATHERS HIS STORES 



But while we are bent on satisfying our 

 immediate desires with the taste of the 

 berries on the bank, along the neighboring 

 fence scampers the little chipmunk, whose 

 provident habits put us to the blush. 



A MISSING LINK 



The "chippie" is one of Nature's "links" 

 — an animal that lies close to the borderland 

 between two groups. It is only recently we 

 have come to recognize how many of these 

 there are, and they often furnish us our most 

 interesting forms. The great squirrel fam- 

 ily in this country starts with the humble, 

 clumsy, stupid woodchuck, who has earned 

 for himself the disrespectful title of ground- 

 hog, and it ends with the active, soft-eyed, 

 beautiful flying squirrel. Just about mid- 

 way in the series, no longer so servilely 

 bound to the soil as the groundhog, and yet 

 not released from it like the squirrel, comes 

 our sprightly, thrifty, comely chipmunk. 

 Scarcely any other of the four-footed wild 

 animals is more familiar or better loved in 



