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over, tliere being only a small hole at one side for getting in and out. 

 There was no appearance of their having eaten or stoi'ed any food in 

 the nest. In the late fall and early winter months when the ordinary 

 supply of food had failed they had recourse to their elevated accumnla- 

 tions, and could be seen every day going from branch to branch or from 

 tree to tree eating up the withered and decayed fruit. They may have 

 eaten only the seeds. In the cold and stormy time of winter they 

 sometimes would not be seen for several days, but on sunshiny days 

 they always came out and would sit for hours on our wood pile basking 

 in the sun. We fed them frequently and they became so tame that 

 they would come at our call and take food from our hands, of course it 

 took some time to gain their confidence. After their supply of apples 

 had failed they began eating the terminal buds on the balsam spruce 

 trees, of which we have several in our garden. They next began eating 

 flower buds of the red maple. The buds on those trees swell out very 

 early in spring and are sometimes in full flower eaily in April. We 

 have one tree of the American Larch in our garden, more commonly 

 kiTOwn hereabouts by the name of Tamarac; when the Squirrels found 

 it they seemed to prefer it to any of the other trees, and made sad havoc 

 among the small branches. When eating the buds of the balsam and 

 maple they did so without cutting off" any of the small branches, but 

 when they began at the tamarac they first cut off the little branches, 

 varying in length from a few inches up to one or two feet, and sitting 

 upon their haunches and holding the little branches with their fore- 

 paws, moved them along, eating off the buds as they did so, much in the 

 same way as we have seen some members of the genius homo do in eating 

 green corn from the cob. In the sprint, when the snow began to go 

 away, the remains of numerous runways were to be seen made by the 

 Squirrels under the snow in search of the deposits made by them the 

 previous autumn. Later in the season dense clumps of young plum 

 trees came up iu [)laces where the Squirrels had previously buried the 

 plum stones and had failed to find them in winter. It is highly probable 

 that our fruit and nut bearing trees are often taken into new localities 

 in this way. The food of Squirrels, as already mentioned, consists 

 principally of vegetable productions, but they can live and thrive on 

 animal food. A gentleman living in this vicinity informed me lately that 



