whistling marmot

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a large marmot, Marmota caligata, of the western mountains.

Quotations

1921

A whistling marmot pops up from the rocks and pierces the stillness.

1935

What a mighty struggle to reach the top! Pressing, digging, sinking, wallowing, even burrowing like the whistling marmots!

1963

They found their way . . . into the valley of a river that Hector named Siffleur--the French name for the whistling marmots.