18 OCTOBER 1930, Page 15

YORKSHIRE Suurnam.s.

Information continues to grow on the rapid extension of the range of the grey squirrel. The latest comes from York- shire which is becoming populous. A very precise account of its ravages is reported in the Yorkshire Evening Post. In an old garden protected with a high brick wall, the whole crop of Victoria plums was devoured by grey squirrels which had established themselves in a neighbouring wood. We have now evidence of their taste for greenhouse as well as out-door peaches, wheat, plums, walnuts, eggs and young birds of all sorts and conditions. Man himself is not more omnivorous.

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