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with that of our Swedifi fquirrel ; but they 

 differ from them, by keeping their grey 

 colour all the year long, and in iize being 

 fomething bigger. The woods in all thefe 

 provinces, and chiefly in Penfylvania, con- 

 fid of trees with deciduous leaves, and in 

 fuch thefe fquirrels like to live. Ray in his 

 Synopjis Quadrupedum, p. 215, and Catejby 

 in his Natural Hijlory of Carolina, Vol. 2. 

 p. 74, tab. 74, call it the Virginian greater 

 grey Squirrel ; and the latter has added a 

 figure after life. The Swedes call it grao 

 Ickorn, which is the fame as the Englifh 

 grey Squirrel. Their nefts are commonly 

 in hollow trees, and are made of mofs, 

 ftraw, and other foft things : their food is 

 chiefly nuts ; as hazel nuts, chinquapins, 

 chefnuts, walnuts, hiccory nuts, and the 

 acorns of the different forts of oak which 

 grow here ; but maize is what they are 

 moil greedy of. The ground in the woods 

 is in autumn covered with acorns, and all 

 kinds of nuts which drop from the nume- 

 rous trees : of thefe the fquirrels gather 

 great ftores for winter, which they lay up 

 in holes dug by them for that purpofe : 

 they likewife carry a great quantity of them 

 into their nefts. 



As foon as winter comes, the fnow 

 and cold confines them to their holes 



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