The Chipmunks looked at each other, half made up their minds to take Buddy at his word, ran part of the way down, and then ran back to the sheltering brown leaves again.
WHITE Study of the chipmunks from the eastern Rocky Mountains and Great Plains reveals that the chipmunks from northeastern Wyoming and from South Dakota which Howell (N.
Geographic distribution and taxonomy of the chipmunks of Wyoming.
The baculum of the chipmunks of western North America.
A minute later, from two holes in a near-by bank, two other chipmunks dashed out.
During one of my very early summers, probably the fourth or fifth, a wave of chipmunks swept over the old farm where I happened to be.
He had thought he knew the forest as the chipmunksknow it, but here it was in a new and romantic aspect.
Scotty felt a moment's inner exultation in that steady aim he had never lost since the days he and Dan shot chipmunks behind the schoolhouse.
WHITE The differences in anatomy and color between many species of chipmunks are subtle, and refined techniques are required to discover them.
Three new subspecies of chipmunks of the genus Eutamias from Nevada.
Revision of the American chipmunks (genera Tamias and Eutamias).
Systematic review of thechipmunks (genus Eutamias) of California.
Bacula of each of the named kinds of chipmunks in this paper, were examined.
The taxonomic status of somechipmunks of the genus Eutamias in southwestern Utah.
He frequents the higher pine belts, and has a noisy strident call like a jay’s, and how clean he and the frisk-tailed chipmunks keep the camp!
Scarcely any bird-note breaks the stillness of the timber-line, but chipmunks inhabit here, as may be guessed by the gnawed ruddy cones of the pines, and lowering hours the woodchucks come down to the water.
Rats and chipmunks have been observed visiting the spring as late as nine o’clock mornings.
All the while he does not neglect to vituperate the chipmunks and sparrows that whisk off crumbs of comfort from under the camper’s feet.
But the funniest thing was when two chipmunks would quarrel,--as generally happened when one unearthed a nut that another had buried.
The boys used to bury nuts just to see how fast the littlest chipmunkswould smell them out.
The yellow sunshine sifted aslant through the giant trees, birds sang, and chipmunks chattered.
The chipmunks soon became so tame that they ran all over the place, over the boys' feet, on up to their shoulders, and into their pockets for the goodies they sometimes found.
He was awakened next morning by the shout Ted sent up when he found two chipmunks running down the string and squeezing their way delightedly into the bag.
Rats and chipmunks have been observed visiting the spring as late as nine o'clock mornings.
He frequents the higher pine belts, and has a noisy strident call like a jay's, and how clean he and the frisk-tailed chipmunks keep the camp!
All the while he does not neglect to vituperate the chipmunks and sparrows that whisk off crumbs of comfort from under the camper's feet.
And each one of them showed him a letter that had come that day, telling all about a new kind of poison, to rid a farmer of chipmunks and red squirrels and rats and mice.
You see, Rowdy had been so frightened when Sandy turned and bit his nose that he actually thought there must be at least seven chipmunks chasing him.
As for chipmunks, Rowdy Red-Squirrel boasted that he could whip six chipmunks at a time.
Caught too far from their burrows, the lives of four chipmunks went out like the puff of a candle.
Often there had been no return for chipmunks crossing that dark crest.
It was such a diminutive beast, not as large as a good-sized rat, quite smaller than our own fence-corner chipmunks of the East.
One of the diminutive chipmunks of the hills scampered out from a cleft in the rocks and perched on a moss-covered log, chattering eagerly and jerking his tail in the well-known manner of chipmunks.
He writes: "The chipmunks of the Olympic Mountains [caurinus] probably reached their present range from the Cascades.
Rainier by approximately eighty miles of low-lying country, which is uninhabited by chipmunks of the species Tamias amoenus.
On my way to the garden I passed the chipmunks in the orchard.
There is scarcely a day in the nesting season when I fail to see half a dozen chipmunks about the walls, yet I never noticed one even suspiciously near a bird’s nest.
Illustration] XIII An Account with Nature THERE were chipmunks everywhere.
Peace between me and the chipmunks had been signed before the strawberry season closed, and the pact still holds.
Since I ceased throwing stones and began to watch the chipmunks carefully, I do not find their manner that of thieves in the least.
Long before the muskrats began to build, even before the swallows commenced to flock, my chipmunks started their winter stores.
The two chipmunks in the wall were now seven, the young ones quite as large as their parents, and both young and old on the best of terms with me.
What shadow of doubt as to his choice between the chipmunks and the strawberries?
The chipmunks are in no danger because of my zeal for science; not that I am uninterested in the capacity of their cheeks in terms of oats, but that I am more interested in the whole squirrel, the whole family of squirrels.
The chipmunks are well worth a tablecloth now and then,—well worth, besides these, all the strawberries and all the oats they can steal from my small patch.
But joy in chipmunksis a cultivated liking, æsthetic in its nature.
Chipmunks were like small squirrels, and gophers were pretty striped little animals that played about on the prairie.
He showed him how to prepare the different skins of animals they found near their camp, and when Jack was tired of work, he and Senor would go off to hunt for chipmunks and gophers.
Like all the Chipmunks and Ground-squirrels, this animal has well-developed cheek-pouches which it uses for carrying home seeds and roots which serve for food in the winter.
Jays are harshly calling, chipmunks are excitedly running, the pure blue of the sky over-arches all, the wine of the morning is in the air, and we are glad we are alive.
This bluejay has watched the visitors and the chipmunks until he has become extra wise.
There are three kinds each of chipmunks and ground-squirrels.
A hard winter affects the chipmunks very little; they are snug and warm in their burrows in the ground and under the rocks, with a bountiful store of nuts or grain.
Two chipmunks near my study were occupied many days in carrying in cherry pits which they gathered beneath a large cherry-tree that stood ten or twelve rods away.
When I was a boy, my father one day armed me with an old musket and sent me to shoot chipmunks around the corn.
In early summer four young chipmunks emerged from the den, and ran freely about.
In certain localities the chipmunks retire in autumn to their holes, fat and drowsy, and temporarily fall into a heavy sleep.
Twice by digging I found the chipmunks in a sleep so heavy that I could not awaken them, and I believe they spend much of the eight months underground sleeping.
Chipmunks around my home remain under ground more than half of the year.
A number of species of chipmunks store quantities of food, mostly weed seed.
Many chipmunks and some species of squirrels hibernate for indefinite periods.
The chipmunks are dear little things about the size of a mouse, with long bushy tails and a dark stripe running the whole length of the body.
The chief enemies of the chipmunksare the florists, for the animals nip growing plants at the roots to reach the sap.
This year it was noticed that an unusual number were about, even in the early spring, when the chipmunks first appear after a winter's sleep.
They wanted the bread, too, and every time the children threw a bit down, both chickens and chipmunks would make a rush for it; and nearly always the chipmunksgot it.
Naturalists, as well as many ordinary observers, it is said, recognize numerous varieties among the chipmunks of the United States, founded principally on the markings of the fur; for in their habits they are all very similar.
Our Animal Friends says that some children were feeding chickens with some stale bread one day, and two or three chipmunks appeared.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chipmunks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
