Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers - John Burroughs

Cat, nursing a young woodchuck, [131], [132]; catching red squirrels, [137].

Chipmunk, [10]; its winter underground and reappearance in the spring, [15], [16]; courting, [16]; a solitary creature, [16], [18]; nervousness of, [16], [18]; chipping and clucking, [16], [17]; storing food, [17], [18], [23], [31], [137]; adventures with cats, [18]–[21]; digging its hole, [21], [22]; furnishing the house, [22]; food of, [23], [31]; an evidence of sociability, [23], [24]; an adventure with a weasel, [24]–[26]; attack by a shrike, [27], [28]; eating strawberries, [29], [30]; a game of tag, [30]; never more than one jump from home, [30]; shifting quarters, [31]; its fear of the weasel, [83]; its providence, [136], [137].

Coon. See [Raccoon].

Dog, the churn-dog and the woodchucks, [34]–[36]; farm-dog and fox, [56], [57], [64], [65]; moisture of his nose, [67], [68]; fight with a weasel, [82], [83]; encounter with a mink, [91], [92]; farm-dog and coon, [94], [95]; coon-dog and coon, [96], [97]; farm-dog and skunk, [139]; a race with a red squirrel, [141]–[143]. See [Foxhound].

Fox, gray, [71].

Fox, red, tracks in the snow, [38], [39], [53], [54], [90], [91]; bark of, [53]; gait of, [54], [126]; the author’s first meeting with, [54], [55]; chased by hounds, [56], [62], [64]–[68]; chased by the farm-dog, [56], [57], [64], [65]; tail of, [57]; method of trapping, [58]–[61]; behavior when trapped, [61], [139], [140]; farm-yard depredations, [62]–[64]; devices for eluding the hounds, [65]–[68]; a method of calling, [68]; burrows and young of, [69], [70]; daylight naps of, [70]; resemblance to the dog, [70], [71]; a young one in the market, [70], [71]; and mink, [90], [91]; beauty and grace of, [126], [139]; humiliation when captured, [139], [140].

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Fox, silver-gray, [67].

[Foxhound], baying of, [55], [56]; the chase of the fox, [56], [62], [64]–[68]; moisture of his nose, [67].

Hare, northern or varying, haunts of, [38], [42]; habits of, [41], [42]; tracks in the snow, [42]; two suits of fur, [42], [140]; pursuit and capture by a lynx, [141].