ROCK SQUIRRELS, OR CHIPMUNKS 



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The Eastern Chipmunk'^ is widely known, and will serve 

 admirably as the key to the group. When you walk in the 

 country, almost anywhere in the eastern states, this pretty 

 little creature darts in front of you like a flash of brown 



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EASTERN CHIPMUNK. 



hght, and says "Chip, chip, chip, chip!" most gleefully. If 

 you stop to observe him, he pauses and looks at you very in- 

 tently, wide-eyed and with ears erect, and, save for the quick 

 heaving of his tiny sides, remains as motionless as a stuffed 

 squirrel. 



To him every fence is a fortress. Whether it be of stone 



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