DCHP-3

striped squirrel

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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any one of several small striped rodents, resembling squirrels, of the family Sciuridae.

Quotations

1793
The . . . following animals are native of it [the Assiniboine River country] . . . Grizzly . . . large ground squirrels of two kinds . . . Kits, the common red wood squirrel, and the striped Swiss. . . .
1812
There are . . . no great number of bears, and those mostly black, with a few brown; few otters and striped squirrels.
<i>a</i>1820
I shot . . . a striped squirrel, a harmless little creature, somewhat less than the English squirrel.