sions to 

 gate, lie 

 pouches 



274 FAMILIAR LIFE IN FIELD AND FOREST. 



moderate distance. He also hangs around the kitchen 

 way, and not infrequently enters the door in search 

 of a few /,.,, fallen crumbs. On all his excur- 

 -^ his burrow, not far from the front 

 appears with his cheek 

 so stufEed out that his 

 eyes are half closed, 

 but on his return his 

 physiognomy has re- 

 sumed its normal propor- 

 tions. 



He is quite the opposite of 

 the red squirrel in one re- 

 spect — he is' quiet. Rarely he raises his voice above 

 a scolding murmur, which sounds like chip-chip-ur- 

 r-r, chip-.'-r-r-r-r. 



* He feeds on the sunflower 

 seeds." 



Tlie nest of the chip- 

 munk is in a hollow 

 chamber about as large as a 

 cocoanut at the end of a tunnel 

 about two feet long, and six- 

 teen inches below the surface 

 of the ground. The female 

 bears from four to six young 

 about the latter part of April. 



One of the prettiest of our squirrels is the little, 

 soft-eyed, velvet-coated flying squirrel {Sciuropterus 



^'S-X 



' The children frequently feed 

 him with crusts of bread." 



