198 THE ESSEX NATURALIST. 
BEDFORDSHIRE.—The mother colony at Woburn has already 
been mentioned and from this centre the squirrels have dispersed 
themselves throughout the county and beyond its confines. 
Mr. J. Steel Elliott says that their present census in the county 
would run into thousands. At Woburn they are greatly reduced 
by trapping and are kept within reasonable bounds ; as many 
as three hundred have been killed in one week and one thousand. 
in a winter. I am told that the Duke of Bedford gave away 
squirrels in many parts of the British Isles for a time, but a record 
was not kept. 
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.—The infrequent etic found are 
said to be wanderers from Bedfordshire, but Mr. Wm. Farren,. 
the taxidermist at Cambridge, has not known more than three 
in the county in about fifteen years. 
NORFOLK.—Grey squirrels from Woburn were sent to this. 
county some years ago (previous to 1914), but I have not suc- 
ceeded in tracing them and the species is unknown in the county 
at present. 
HUNTINGDONSHIRE.—Areas in this county are said to be 
over-run by the grey squirrel,?® but I have no particulars. 
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.—Thanks to kind replies from Mr. H. N. 
Dixon and Mr. Fred Bostock to my enquiries the localities 
occupied in Northants can be named. Grey squirrels first ap- 
peared about ten years ago, the source not being known, and 
they are now found at Salcey Forest, Wakefield Lawn, Castle 
Ashby and Stoke Park, Stoke Bruerne, in all of which the num- 
bers are increasing. There is also a record for Weston, near 
Towcester.?7.__ In the Oundle and Biggen districts Lord Lilford 
reports that the species is unknown. 
WARWICKSHIRE.—I have a SOE but interesting note 
applying to the city of Birmingham :—“ A gentleman who lived 
‘near the top of the Hagley Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, 
‘“‘ kept a number of grey squirrels, about twenty, for many years. 
‘in his grounds [this was more than nine years ago], but there 
‘‘came a day when these pretty little animals had to find other 
‘‘homes, for their owner left to go to another town, and before 
‘“‘he went he let the squirrels loose, and in time they were seen 
“in the trees of various estates. Some gradually worked their 
‘“‘way to one or two gardens in the Wellington Road, where they 
26 N.B. The Field, 30th October, 1919. 
27 Mr. O. V. Aphin, Zoologist, August 1916, p. 312. 
