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to Wisconsin and Minnesota. Black phases appear to be not rare 
in Minnesota and Dunn Co., Wis. 
Sciurus hudsonius loquax (Southern Red Squirrel.) 
Frequently, during my residence here, Red Squirrels have been 
reported to me. In reply to a request to my informants to bring 
me one I have received several Fox Squirrels, and I had really 
begun to doubt the occurrence of the Chickaree in Dodge County. 
Imagine, therefore, the pleasure to me, to have a youthful 
hunter of this city bring me one of these squirrels, which he had 
shot on Oct. 30th last, about 8 miles southwest of this city. The 
day he obtained this one was a bright, warm day, and he chanced 
upon a woods (consisting wholly of oak), where, he tells me, he 
could have taken a dozen on that day, but only shot one, because he 
did not know whether they were anything I cared for. He subse- 
quently visited the woods, but always on stormy, cloudy days, 
when there were few to be seen, and brought me three more. 
Arctomys inonax fWoodchuck.) 
Known locally as Woodchuck. I have never heard '^Ground 
Hog" applied to this animal about here. 
An abundant rodent, frequenting woodland, meadows, stone 
fences and pasture lands. Some years more abundant than others. 
His excavations in the meadows are a menace to horses, owing to 
their stumbling into them and occasionally breaking a leg, other- 
wise they do little harm. 
One has been observed with abnormal inciscor development, 
as had the squirrel mentioned elsewhere in this paper. 
One season, a few years ago, they were so abundant that at 
least 47 were killed upon our 400 acre farm. 
A favorite home site of the Woodchuck is the little groves 
surrounded by marsh land, upon every one (of which I have 
knowledge), in this vicinity (some 16 in number), a den may be 
found. And one colony has become established on an island, of 
perhaps three-fourths of an acre in extent, in our lake. 
During 13 years' residence here I have seen this animal abroad 
every month of the year except December and January. A warm 
spell, in early February, will call him forth, though snow yet cov- 
ers the ground. 
The largest one which I have ever weighed tipped the scales 
at 12 pounds, less 3 ounces. One black one has been reported. 
Not infrequently do I find them in trees. One old settler had 
taken up his abode in a timber lot and in the midst of a patch of 
