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AFRICAN PORCUPINE. 



Gray Squirrel 



Black Squirrel 



Fox Squirrel . . 



Southern Fox Squirrel . 

 Red Squirrel. 



North American. 



. Sciurus caroUiiensis New York. 



Ohio. 



" ludovicianiis Kansas. 



" niger Louisiana. 



hudsonhis New York. 



Eastern Chipmunk Tamias striatim. 



Western Chipmunk " spcciosus California. 



Parry's Spermophile CiteUiis parryi Alaska. 



Thirteen-Lined Spermophile. .,Spcriiiophihis tiidcccm -Uncut us. . Iowa. 



Foreign Species. 



Malabar Hill Squirrel 



Indian Hill Squirrel 



Prevost Squirrel 



Golden-Bellied Squirrel 



Columbia Fire-Backed Squirrel 



Sciuius malahnriciis S. India. 



" iicolor N. India. 



" prevosti Malayana. 



" aureigasicr Mexico. 



" variahilis S. America. 



No collection of Rodents is worthy of acceptance by the 

 public without a fair representation of Porcupines. The 

 most wonderful species is the African Porcupine, {Hystrix 

 cristata), which when disturbed erects a threatening array 

 of enormously-long, shining black-and-white c(uills that are 



