HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 357 



with corn, that their cheeks are quite diftended ; and in 

 this manner carry it to their concealed {tore. They give 

 great preference to certain kinds of food ; and if, after 

 filling their mouths with rye, they chance to meet with 

 wheat, they difcharge the one, that they may fecure the 

 other. 



The Ground Squirrel is marked with a ftripe of black, 

 which runs along the ridge of the back ; and on each fide 

 a yellow ftripe, bordered with black : Its head, body, and 

 tail, are of a reddifli-brown ; bread and belly white ; its 

 nofe and feet of a pale-red colour: its eyes full and live- 



It is very wild, bites feverely, and is tamed with diffi- 

 culty. Its fkin is of little value. 



