MORE SQUIRRELS 



discovered and appropriated by other squirrels or 

 by mice ? 



The number of the gray squirrels is reduced 

 each year much more rapidly than is the case with 

 the red ones. I doubt if more than one half of 

 them live to see the first snowstorm. And the 

 possessions which they leave, in the shape of nuts 

 and acorns, must help materially in furnishing the 

 survivors with food at just the time of the year 

 when it is most needed, although in all likelihood 

 by far the larger part of them falls into the hands 

 of the red squirrels, whose ranks are never notice- 

 ably thinned and who are wide-awake and abroad 

 at all times and seasons. 



It might very naturally be supposed that the 

 habits of so curious and remarkable an animal as 

 the flying squirrel would have received more than 

 usual attention, yet, in spite of its abundance and 

 familiarity, there would seem to be less known 

 concerning its ways and manner of getting a liv- 

 ing than concerning those of almost any of our 



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