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high ground to Luss in 1904, and to Inverbeg on the 

 banks of Loch Lomond in 1 906 ; south-westwards to Gare- 

 lochhead in 1907, and along the western shores of Gare 

 Loch to Roseneath in 1915; southwards, till in 1912, 

 individuals were obtained at Row, Helensburgh, Alexandria 

 and furthest south at Culdross. From this area an eastern 



Fig. 52. American Grey Squirrel acclimatized in many parts of Britain. ^ nat. size. 



extension carried the migrants to the eastern bounds of 

 Dumbartonshire at Drymen about 1915. These records 

 make it apparent that in a quarter of a century ithe 

 Grey Squirrel has taken possession of a strip of country 

 roughly twenty miles long by fifteen miles broad. There 

 is every likelihood that the Zoological Park of the Scottish 

 Zoological Society, situated at Corstorphine on the outskirts 

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