Photo: W. S. Berridge. 



AMERICAN GREY SQUIRREL (Sciurus carolinensis) 



COMING DOWN A TREE 



An attractive and beautiful native of North America with 

 habits similar to those of the Red Squirrel. A large nest is 

 built on or in the tree, and there are usually two litters in the 

 year. The creatures show great enthusiasm in hiding stores, 

 including single nuts, in the ground. When pursued they 

 press themselves flat and quiet on a branch, or take daring 

 leaps from tree to tree. Many small colonies have estab- 

 lished themselves, sometimes from Zoological Gardens, in 

 Britain; and the diffusion on the shores of Loch Long shows 

 the danger of introduction. The animals are very delightful 

 in the London parks, but they may do enormous damage in 

 woods and forests. The pet of confinement is apt to be the 

 pest of the open. 



Photo: Douglas English. 



NUTS GNAWED BY SQUIRRELS 



The holes in the empty shells show the neat work of the 

 chisel-edged incisor teeth, and also, in most cases, the marked 

 economy, for the aperture is not made larger than is necessary 

 to let the kernel out. 



