Davis : Natural History of Long Island, N. Y. 115 



The birds were not always successful and quite often came back 

 to the perching tree with empty bills. 



A gray squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis, at Calverton, near the Old 

 Forge on the Peconie River, had made a nest in a tree in the usual 

 manner, but had worked into the structure the skeletonized leaves 

 of an oak. The leaves had been eaten by the larvae of a species 

 of Anisota until only the midrib and principal veins remained. 

 The squirrel had gnawed off the ends of the branches, each twig 

 bearing several of the skeletonized leaves, and w'ith this wiry 

 material the nest had been lined. In many localities the bark of 

 the red cedar is used by gray squirrels, and it seemed to us that in 

 this instance good judgment had been shown in using the best 

 material at hand. 



