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[57.] 1. Scrurus (Tamias) Lysterr. (Ray.) The Hackee. 
Genus, Sciurus. Linn. Sub-genus, Tamias. ILLIGER. 
Escurieux Suisses. SaGarp-THEODAT, Canada, p. 746. 
Ground squirrel. Lawson, Carolina, p. 124. Carrssy, Carol., vol. ii. p..75. 
Epwarps, vol.iv. t. 181. Kau, vol. i. p. 322. t. 1. 
Sciurus Lysteri. Ray, Synops. Quadr., p. 216. 
Le Suisse. CHarLEvorx, Nowv. Fr., vol.v. p. 198. 
Striped Dormouse. PENNANT, Arct. Zool., vol. i. p. 126. 
Sciurus striatus. Harian, Fauna, p. 183. 
Hackee. UNITED STATES. 
Ohihoin. Hurowns. 
Se. Tamrias (Lysteri), dorso brunnescenti-griseo posticé helvolo linea centrali nigra percurso, lineaque in utroque lateré 
alba breviori latiori super subterque nigro marginatd, ventre albo, caudd breviusculd. 
The Hackee, with cheek-pouches ; a brownish-gray back, bright orange-brown buttocks, a slender black dorsal stripe, 
and a broader white one on each flank, with a broad black border above and below it ; a white belly ; a 
shortish tail. 
PLATE xy. 
This elegant little animal is considered, by Pallas and subsequent writers, to be 
the same with the Asiatic sciurus striatus ; but the descriptions given of the latter 
do not exactly correspond with American specimens, and I am not aware that 
the identity of the species on the two continents has been established by actual 
comparison. The observations of Pallas on the manners and form of the Asiatic 
animal apply so exactly to the American one, that a passage or two may be 
quoted from his work with advantage :— 
«They dig their burrows in woody places, in small hummocks of earth, or near 
the roots of trees ; but never, like the common squirrels, make their nests in the 
trunks or branches of trees, although, when scared from their holes, they climb: 
with facility, and make their way from branch to branch with great speed. A 
winding canal leads to their nest, and they generally form two or three lateral 
chambers, to store their winter food in. ‘The striped squirrel, in its manners, and 
from its having cheek-pouches, is allied to the hamster and citillus (type of the 
genus spermophilus), and is likewise connected with the latter by its convex nose, 
proper for an animal accustomed to dig. In its whole habit it differs from the 
squirrels which live in trees, and forms, with other striped squirrels, a division of 
the genus. It has a longer head than the common squirrel ; rounded ears, not 
tufted ; roundish, hairy tail, which it less frequently turns up; a slender body, 
and shorter extremities. The fur, likewise, is very short, and less fine. Yet, in 
