Concord, Mass.
1912
October 6
[October 6, 1912]

Flying Squirrel at Ball's Hill

  During my shooting and collecting days I occasionally 
came across flying squirrels in Concord. About 1869 D.C. French [Daniel Chester French]
and I saw one in the woods at Fairhaven Bay "flying" from 
tree trunk to tree trunk early in the afternoon of a clear
warm summer or early autumn day. Another that I 
remember was startled from a hole in a dead tree on the 
Estabrook road in May or June of 1886 or 1887. 
Since I bought Ball's Hill and all the other land near it 
and our farm I have been constantly expecting to find 
Flying Squirrels in the woods but my first evidence
of their presence there was obtained this morning when 
I picked up the freshly severed tail and some pieces of skin
of one in a foot path at the west end of Ball's Hill. 
Something had evidently killed & eaten the Squirrel that 
night. Its tail strikes one as large enough to be that 
of a specimen of the large northern form.