TUFTED-EARED SQUIRRELS. 
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her five of the little fellows ready for taxidermic 
honors 
At another time she shot some tufted-eared 
squirrels, a species peculiar to the Rocky Moun- 
tains. Their ears are their most marked pecu- 
liarity, being ornamented in a grotesque fashion 
by tufts of long hair. Colorado seems to be par- 
ticularly favorable to the growth of ears. Please 
don’t think I mean any disrespect to the new- 
fledged State. I only state a fact. Donkeys 
flourish there ; so do mules. People have always 
supposed that rabbits everywhere had one feature 
sufficiently developed, but there their ears grow 
so much longer than at the East, that the bunnies 
of our childhood had none worth speaking of in 
comparison. And those squirrels’ ears, aside 
from the tufts of hair that finished them off, were 
a third longer than those of their Eastern brothers. 
Mrs. Maxwell also captured here rare birds of 
several kinds ; and, what might be of scientific 
value, could it be estimated, and any one was 
curious as to the amount a woman can endure 
when interested in her work, she was captured 
by a great number of thunder-storms, and wet 
through and through time and again. It was 
during the latter part of August, a time of the 
year when every cloud of any size that sails over 
the mountains is liable to get its equilibrium 
sufficiently disturbed to capsize it before it gets 
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