288 SQUIRREL, 
2|6.Gro^nd. Moufe fquirrel JvJfelyns voy. 86. cov.YL. 43 2,, 
Ground fquirrel Laiv/bn Carolina, Sciurus ftriatus. Sc. flavus itriil 
124. Catejby Carolina , II. 75. quinque fufcis fongitudinalibus. 
EdkvJ'lSl. Kahn- I. 322. tab. i. Lin.fyft. 87. Klein, quad, 53. 
Sciurus Lifteri. Raii fyn. quad. Sciurus Carolinenfis, Brijj'onquadi 
Zi6. Le Suilfe de Bujfbn, X. 126. tab. 
Sciurus minor virgatus AW. CW. xxviii. Charlevoix Nouv. France, 
Petr'op. V. 344. V. 198. 
Boern-doefeie Lt Brun . voy. Mof- 
Sq. with plain ears : ridge of the back marked with 
a black ftreak : each fide with a pale yellow ftripe, 
bounded above and below with a line of black: 
head, body and tally of a reddifh brown j the tail the 
darkeft: break: and belly white : nofe and feet pale 
red: eyes full. 
Inhabits the North of Afia \ but found in the 
greateft abundance in the forefts of North America : 
they never run up trees except purfued, and find no 
other means of efcaping : they burrow, and form 
their habitations under ground with two entrances, 
that they may get accefs to the one, in cafe the 
other is flopped up. Their retreats are formed with 
great fkill, in form of a long gallery, with branches 
on each fide, each of which terminates in an en¬ 
larged chamber, as a magazine to flore their winter 
provifion in; in one they lodge the acorns, in ano¬ 
ther the mayz, in a third the hickery nuts, and in 
the laft, their favorite food the chinquapin chefnut. 
They very feldom ftir out during winter, at left as 
long as their provifions laft •, but if that fails, they 
will dig into cellars where apples are kept, or barns 
where mayz is ftored, and do a great deal of mifchief * 
but 
