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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A spermophile or ground-squirrel of North America; a sciuromorphic rodent quadruped of the subfamily Spermophilinæ and genus Spermophilus, numerous species of which inhabit the prairies of western North America.
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Flocks of turtle-doves rose from our path scared at our approach; quails and rabbits were seen running before us; the prairie-squirrel, a little striped animal of the marmot kind, crossed the road; we started plovers by the dozen, and now and then a prairie-hen, which flew off heavily into the grassy wilderness.
Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America William Cullen Bryant 1836
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