Nests Of The Gray Squirrel

In the East the northern gray squirrel is the commonest species, and that which is most widely known. There is no need to describe it here; but wheu you come to describe its nesting hab'its. beware of making as to what it does not do. In Washington I once heard a lively three-cornered dispute on this subject, which was quite instructive. One boy asserted that the gray squirrel nests in hollow trees, beech or oak preferred. Another declared that in summer it builds a nest of green leaves, for summer use only. A third contended that the summer nest is built of bark strippings from cedar trees, made Into a big, round ball. Within a montU we collected, within ten miles of the National Museum, three fine nests which proved Wiat all three of the disputants were right: Moral: Never base a general statement an insufficient