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The foxes, however, after leaving their nearest neighbours 
unmolested, come here (three miles off) and kill from twenty to 
thirty fowls (of all sorts and sizes) in one yard, in one night, as 
if they had sense enough to know the danger of making enemies 
near home. 
Squirrel (, Sciums vulgaris). I do not believe the squirrel ever 
hybernatos in this neighbourhood. It may take shelter for a day, 
perhaps, in stormy, wot weather, but in the coldest weather in 
winter it seems moro activo than usual ; and I have often seen them 
and their tracks in such weather along the snowy roadsides and 
fields at considerable distances from plantations, as if they were 
migrating from one wood to another. 
January 19th, 187G. Sparham. I counted (four times in the 
day) six squirrels at once in our garden. I saw and counted them 
almost daily during this winter, in spite of snow and frost, till 
April, when they became troublesome by getting into our apple 
shed, and stealing and spoiling the apples at such a rate that it was 
thought best to destroy our pet squirrels. Squirrels arc very fond 
of thin strips of the inner bark of the lime tree to make their 
nests with. They prepare (or find) it in such a shite that it 
resembles coarse tow, or rather hemp. In Hockering wood their 
nests are often made almost exclusively of this material, with a few 
twigs and sticks outside. I have seen a squirrel’s nest of this bark, 
lining and almost filling a box which was put up in a tree for owls 
to build in. 
August 28th, 1870. I shot a squirrel which had lost a fore leg, 
but it seemed quite as active as if it was perfect. 
February 20th, 1877. I shot a squirrel as it came running 
towards me along the .Norwich and Fakenham turnpike. I found 
in its stomach five white tape-worms (each about two inches long) ; 
they were between the folds of the intestine, not in the intestine. 
Query — how did they get there ? 
Harvest Mouse (Mas messorius). In 1870 I received a 
harvest mouse alive in March, and a pair in June. The ? was 
larger and redder than the £ . I kept them alive for several 
months. They use their prehensile tails in climbing ; they use 
both hands at once in cleaning and in feeding themselves. I made 
for them a little nest suspended by a fine wire about the size of 
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