660 NOTES OF A FUR HUNTER. 
bear often finds the half-pint of beechnuts hidden by the 
Red Squirrel under the leaves and eats them. 
STRIPED SQUIRREL (Tamias striatus Baird). The 
striped Squirrel deposits his winter store in a single 
place. 
Woopcnuck (Arctomys monax Gmelin). The Wood- 
chuck lives in holes in the ground; is partial to beans, 
but lives principally on grass. I think it hibernates. 
EAVER (Castor Canadensis Kuhl.). I have caught 
seventy Beavers. Have killed seven from one house, 
and left one or more. I killed five from another house, 
and opened the house, which was about four feet across 
on the inside, and two feet high. It was oven-shaped. 
There was but one room to it, and I never saw a house 
with more. The houses are sometimes round, some- 
times oblong. The house is made of brush thrown into 
a pile, and covered with mud and sticks. The room is 
eaten out of the brush; that is, the brush is in a pile, 
and the room is made by gnawing out a part of it. The 
passage way is a ditch passing downward and forward 
into the water, and is covered with brush and’ mud. 
Right on top of the house is a part of the roof where 
there is no mud on the sticks, thus leaving the wall open 
enough there for ventilation. 
The Beaver makes his pond to enable him to bring 
and store his food, which is the bark of white birch, yel- 
low birch, mountain ash, swamp maple, poplar, and wil- 
low, and perhaps some others. They throw their brush 
over their passage way, so that the top of it is in the 
water; that is, the butt of the bush is over the passage 
way, and the twigs of the top in the water. They cut 
down the trees, which are for food, and stick the butts 
_ under the brush, leaving the tops to float. If the tree is 
