Dec. 1905] PROCEEDINGS s. I. ass'n akts and sciences. 15 



the tree and opened. The ground beneath the pine tree was strewn so 

 thickly with the branches that it had a green appearance, and at the 

 base of the tree there was about half a bushel of cone remains. 



Squirrels eat the seeds not only of our native pines, but they also 

 open the long cones of the Norway spruce. Mr. Alanson Skinner and 

 I found some of these cones at Ramapo, N. Y., in April, 1904. When 

 the scales have been removed by the squirrels the spiral arrangement 

 is much better shown in these cones than in those of the pitch pine. 



In many localities red squirrels are extremely self assertive and may 

 be seen and heard almost constantly, but in the pine barrens about 

 Lakehurst I have seen but few, and they act quite dififerently. Here 

 on Staten Island we have no wild red squirrels, although gray squirrels 

 are fairly numerous. The red squirrel is also said not to occur on 

 Long Island. 



In ''American Animals," by Witmer Stone and Wm. E. Cram, pub- 

 lished in 1902, occurs the following: '*But as early as July, while the 

 young squirrels have still to be watched over and looked after, the in- 

 dustrious red squirrels begin cutting off the green cones of the white 

 pine and work early and late burying them, half a dozen in a place, 

 under the pine needles, to be dug up in the winter and early spring, 

 and opened for the seeds they contain." The young of red squirrels, 

 and of our other species, are often born much later than July, as was 

 pointed out in the Proceedings of ihe Nahiral Science Associatio7i oi 

 Staten Island of January 9th, 1886, — that is tosa}', our native squirrels 

 have often both spring and fall or late summer broods of young. 



Mr. Davis also explained and demonstrated a simple and practical 

 method of temporarily binding pamphlets and read the following note; 



A Practical Method of Tyi.vg Pami'Ulets in Bundles. 



With the month of December most of the botanical, entomological 

 and other natural history journals end their volumes for the current 

 year, and it becomes necessary to tie the separate numbers together un- 

 til such time as they can be sent to the binder. Many of the journals 

 are of but few pages, and several years are usually bound together in a 

 single volume. Meanwhile it often becomes necessary to consult a 

 particular article, and when tied together in the usual way the numbers 

 are not conveniently reached. It may be found, however, that twelve 

 numbers of the Canadian Entomologist , for instance, can be securely 

 tied together by winding a fine strong string four times about tliem 



