LITTLE BEASTS OF FIELD AND WOOD 



coming out in the warmest weather to enjoy the 

 sunshine and rake over the dead leaves for scat- 

 tered nuts and acorns, or to transfer some of his 

 hidden treasures to the home-tree. And in the 

 winter he oftens allows whole weeks to slip by 

 without so much as having poked his head out of 

 his doorway, his favourite time for taking the air 

 being on still sunny mornings after a snowstorm, 

 the least breath of wind often serving to drive 

 him back to his quarters again. Occasionally, 

 however, you will see him out defying the 

 cold when the north wind is fashioning snow- 

 drifts along the fences. But for all that he is no 

 true northerner, and one is hardly surprised to 

 learn that New Hampshire is about his northern 

 limit. 



These northern gray squirrels of ours, true to 

 the general rule, are larger and grayer than those 

 farther south. The brown stripe along the back, a 

 distinguishing feature of the typical gray squirrel, 

 is inconspicuous or wholly wanting. The black 



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