...white, blotched with black and brown. The young are fed with squirrels, rabbits, and various other food. As soon as the young are able to take care of themselves, the old birds dissolve their partnership, and treat each other as perfect strangers. The BLACK WARRIOR,...

...neighboring stump or log, or, more frequently, to the low branches of some small tree, under which thu shells are found cut and broken into a number of pieces,...not generally, builds several nests, each of which ie sometimes a simple pile of twigs and leaves placed in the forks of a tree, but at other times is...

...them to a neighboring stump or log, or, more frequently, to the low branches of some small tree, under which the shells are found cut and broken into a number...care of themselves, the female usually drives them ofl', when the old male, which has retired to a summer residence to escape the discomfort attendant...

...as his opinion that they can always smell the food, unless it is buried under very deep snow. . . . "The fox-squirrel is more solitary in its habits than...winter-quarters and society of his chosen mate ; for, usually thisspecies is not polygamous. This squirrel often, if not generally, builds several nests, each of...

...them do n**- **' the Gulf of St. Lawrence till May or June and often July. The old Hoods disappear as soon as the young are able to take care of themselves, and pass in deep water through the Straits of Helle Isle on their way home. They are very wary animals,...

...direction. The golden plover nests along the Arctic coasts of North America from Alaska to Hudson Bay. So soon as the young are able to take care of themselves the birds migrate south-east to Labrador, where for some weeks they fatten on the autumn harvest of fruits....