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feet " clean," his eyes bright, and his teeth wJdte ; this latter 

 particularly. For if a squirrel's teeth be yellow, be sure that 

 he is an old animal, used to liberty for many years, and, con- 

 sequently, all the harder to break in. 



Besides the squirrel with which we are familiar, there are 

 so many others of the species, that to give any other than a 

 cursory notice of the most curious would be quite impracticable 

 in a volume like the present. There is the palm squirrel, a 

 little fellow of yellow colour, barred with black bars, found in 

 Africa, and which lives among the cocoa-trees, and is wonder- 

 fully fond of Sury, or pahu wine, which, among other good things, 

 is yielded by the cocoa-tree. Then there is the squirrel that 

 haunts the plains (not the trees) in the neighbourhood of Lake 

 Winipeg, in America, and which the Cree Indians call Savoacka- 

 Wappiocoos; and the four-banded pouched squirrel, which, 

 as its name implies, has a pouch on either side of its jaws ; and 

 the Great Malabar squirrel, measuring, from the nose to the 

 tip of its tail, nearly a yard, and richly tinted with chocolate 

 and chestnut and black. This species, like the palm squirrel, 

 builds its nest in the cocoa-tree, and, biting through the tough 

 husk with its sharp teeth, drinks the cocoa-milk and eats the 

 cocoa-flesh, and, altogether, seems to live a very joUy life 

 indeed. 



The Chipping sqiiirrel, or Hackee, as it is sometimes called, 

 is one of the prettiest of the species. It is but eleven inches 

 in length, of which the tail occupies four inches. Its colours 

 are brownish-grey on the neck, glowing into orange-brown on 

 the forehead and the hinder quarters. Along its back and 

 sides extend five black and two cream-coloured stripes, and the 

 throat and under parts are snowy -white. It may be easily 

 seen, from this description, that the Hackee is rather a nice- 

 looking little animal. It is a native of North America. 



It is a burrowing animal, but would seem to be no more easy 

 of capture than those of arboreal habits. Audubon gives a 

 description of a Hackee hunt : — " This species is, to a certain 

 extent, gregarious in its habit. We had in autumn marked 

 one of its burrows, which we conceived well adapted to our 

 purpose, which was to dig it out. It was in the woods, in a 

 sandy piece of ground, and the earth was strewed with leaves 

 to the depth of eight inches, which, we believed, would prevent 

 the frost penetrating to any considerable depth. We had the 

 place opened in January, when the ground was covered with 

 mow about five inches deep. The entrance of the burrow had 



