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county about a leopard that had been seen in the vicinity of Richwood, and traced by 
its depredatious and different contests with adventurous hunters. That wild beast was 
finally caught, stutfed and put on exhibition in the towns of Union county to satisfy the 
curiosity of those whom it had kept in terror for some time. In Union county there are 
very large forests, perhaps the largest in the State, and it is known as a great region for 
hunters. Last week a man was attacked by a wolf in Jerome township, Union county, 
about four miles from Plain City. The circumstances are as follows: John Robinson 
was out in the woods cutting wood, and in the evening had_ started for his house, when 
he was suddenly attacked by a ferocious wolf. He raised a terrific yell and with his 
weapons at hand msnaged to keep the savage beast at bay until a neighbor, named 
John Boner, came to his relief and shot the wolf. It measured five feet in length, and 
was a heavy, strong beast of its kind. It is not ascertained whether it is a wild inhab- 
itant of those woods or one that escaped from some cage, but it is thought to be a wild 
native of those forests. The wood-cutters in that county meet with wild beasts almost 
every winter.” 
SPERMOPHILUS TRIDECEMLINEATUS (Mitchell), Audubon and Bachman. 
Var. tridecemlineatus. Allen. : 
STRIPED GOPHER; STRIPED PRAIRIE SQUIRREL; EASTERN STRIPED SPERMOPHILE., 
1821. Sevurus tridecmlineatus, Mitchell, Med. Repos, xxi, 1821, 248.— 
Desm., Mamm., i1, 1822. 339 (from Mitchell). 
1822. Arctomys hoodi, Sabine, Trans. Linn. Soc., xiii, 1822, 590, pl. xxix; 
Franklin’s Journal, 1823, 663 (Carlton House).—Fisher, Synop. 
Mamm., 1829, 544 (from Sabin¢).— Wagener, Schreber’s Sauget., 
pl. coxe. (name on plate). | 
1825. <Arctomys tridecemlineatus, Harlan, Faun. Amer., 1825, 164.—God- 
: man, Am. Nat. Hist., 11, 1826, 112. 
1829. Arctomys (Spermophilus) hoodt. Richardson, Faun. Bor: Amer., i, 
13295 177, *pls xiv: : 
1849. Spermophilus tridecemlineatus, Audubon and Bachman, Quad. N. A., 
i, 1849, 924.—Hoy, Pat. Off. Rep. Agr., 1853 (1854), 68 (habits).— 
Kennicott, ib., 1856 (1857), 74, pl. viii (general history).— 
Baird, Mamm. N. A., 1857, 316 Gn part)—Thomas, Trans. Il. 
State Agr. Soe., iv, 1860, 657.—Allen, Proc. Bos. Soc. Nat. Hist., 
x1ii, 1870, 189 (lowa).—Jordan, Man. Vert., 2d ed., 1878. 
1874. Spermophilus tridecemlineatus, var. tridecemlineatus, Allen, Proc. 
Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xvi, 1874, 291; Mon. N. A. Rodentia, 
USM OU Me 
Leopard Ground Squirrel, Schoolcraft, Travels, 1821, 331. 
Striped American Marmot, Sabine. 
Striped and Spotted Ground Squirrel, Say, Long’s Ex., ii, 1823, 174. 
Hood’s Marmot, Sabine. 
Leopard Marmot, Richardson. 
Leopard Spermophile, Aud. and Bach. 
