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of age, they are weaned, but remain with the mother until she has her 

 second litter. 



The gray squirrel is generally vegetarian in habits, its food consisting 

 of many kinds of nuts (including acorns), seeds, fruits, buds, fungi, 

 inner bark of certain trees, and occasionally corn and other grains, and 

 fleshy parts of plants. Sometimes it eats small amounts of animal food 

 such as insects or an occasional bird's egg or small bird. 



Specimens examined. — Allegany County: Mount Savage, 1 (Coll. 

 U. Md.). Anne Arundel County: Priest Bridge, 1. Calvert County: 

 Little Cove Point Area, 2; Prince Frederick, 1. Charles County: 

 Marshall Hall, 1; Newport, 1; Port Tobacco, 2. Dorchester County: 

 Cambridge, 3. Garrett County : Friendsville, 14 ^i^® NTT, 1 (Coll. U. 

 Md.) ; Grantsville, 2; Meadow Mountain, 1 (Coll. U. Md.). Harford 

 County : Fallston, 5. M ontgomery County: Dickerson, 1 ; Germantown, 

 2; Kensington, 1; Takoma Park, 2; Woodside, 1. Prince Georges 

 County: Beltsville, 1; Bladensburg, 2; Branchville, 1; College Park, 

 1; Fort Washington, 1; Laurel, 22; (Upper) Marlboro, 2; Muirkirk, 

 1; Oxon Hill, 1; Patuxent River (fork), 2; Piscataway Creek, 2; 

 Scagg's Swamp, 1. District of Columtia: 40. 



Other records and reports. — Allegany County : South end of Town 

 Hill Mountain (personal observation). Baltimore City (Flyger, 1960b, 

 p. 366). Baltimore County: Bare Hills-Lake Roland area (Bures, 

 1948, p. 67) ; Loch Raven (Kolb, 1938) ; Patapsco State Park (Ham^pe, 

 1939, p. %). Frederick County: Thurmont (Coll. U. Md.) ; Sugar Loaf 

 Mountain (personal observation). Garrett County: Keyser's Ridge 

 (Coll. U. Md.) ; Montgomery County : Plummers Island (Goldman 

 and Jackson, 1939, p. 133) . Prince Georges County: Aquasco (Herman, 

 and Reilly, 1955, p. 402). Worcester County : Ocean City, 2 miles N 

 (personal observation). 



Remarks. — All of Maryland was formerly included within the range 

 of the southern subspecies of gray squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis caro- 

 linensis Gmelin (see Bangs, 1896, p. 153, and Miller, 1924, p. 223). 

 Patton (1939, pp. 75-76), however, in a study of the distribution of 

 the gray squirrel in Virginia, concluded that S. c. carolinensis occupies 

 the southern half of the Piedmont Plateau and the entire Coastal Plain 

 region in that State. He says that in Virginia the area of intergradation 

 between S. c. carolinensis and S. c. leiocotis (= pennsylvanicus) lies 

 along a line drawn from central King George County to southeastern 

 Patrick County, and he assigned a specimen from Eastville, on the 

 Virginia portion of the Delmarva Peninsula, to S. c. carolinensis. This 

 suggests that, although most of Maryland lies within the range of S. c. 

 pennsylvanicus. the southern portions of the Western Shore and 

 Eastern Shore sections are within the range of S. c. carolinensis^ and 

 the range of the species in Maryland has been mapped in this way by 



