THE LIFE OF A GRAY SQUIRREL 5 1 



mother's ear is white, theirs was gray. Their tails 

 were now becoming very hairy. They still con- 

 tinued to do nothing but sleep, eat, and squirm. 

 They were never quiet. For two days previous to 

 this time Fanny had seemed very uneasy. She 

 jumped out of the nest and called her young, but 

 they made no move to follow her. On this day 

 she had many times taken up one of the babies in 

 her mouth and lapped and handled it, especially the 

 latter. We put much cotton into the cage so they 

 might not suffer were she to take them from the 

 box. When lifting one, she usually grasped it by 

 a leg, or the skin on the back of its body — far back. 



When five weeks old the under part of the body 

 and inner part of the leg were thickly covered with 

 white hairs. 



When five and a half weeks old we found each 

 little squirrel with one eye partly open. With the 

 two larger squirrels it was the left eye, with the 

 smaller one it was the right eye. The smallest squir- 

 rel was of a much lighter gray than the other two, 

 and had no rusty hairs in its coat. 



On the morning following that of the above record 

 we looked with expectancy for wide-open eyes, but 

 only the little gray had an eye open, its right eye, 



