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The Gkey Squirrel. 

 SciURUS ciNEEEUS, Harlan, Fauna Americana, p. 173. 



The Grey Squirrel is too well known to require any description. It 

 migrates in prodigious numbers, crossing large rivers by swimming with 

 its tail extended on the water, and traverses immense tracts of country, in 

 search of the places where food is most abundant. During these migra- 

 tions, the Squirrels are destroyed in vast quantities. Their flesh is 

 white, very deUcate, and affords excellent eating, when the animals are 

 young. "In 1749," says Dr Harlan, in the work above referred to, 

 " a premium of three pence a-head was offered for their destruction, which 

 amounted in one year to L. 8000 Sterling, which is equal to about 

 1,180,000 individuals kiUed." 



