3 DECEMBER 1898, Page 14

SQUIRRELS FEEDING SHEEP.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Wandering many years ago in the then Lord Skelmers- dale's park near Ormskirk, my attention was drawn to the eccentric movements of fallow deer galloping from one clump of trees to another, as though playing some game. The cawing of rooks met the ear, and I noticed that these birds led the game, flying to different trees in advance of the deer. On closer scrutiny, the rooks were feeding upon, and letting fall many acorns as they fed, and these the deer hastened to secure. Thus the squirrels were feeding themselves on the apples, not the sheep, which merely ran to feed on such at the squirrels aloft let fall.—I am, Sir, &c., JNO. POWNALL.

Llangollen, North Wales, November 25th.