THE GREY SQUIRREL
.[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—The following note may, I think, be of interest to your readers. I have been interested the past few weeks in reading in your paper correspondence as to the growing ravages in Britain of the. Canadian grey squirrel. A month or two ago I
had to take over m the anagement of a small cocoa estate in a neglected condition. -I put an overseer in e
. charge, and gavel him a gun in order to reduce the great loss from vermin.
On my last visithe gavelne a tally of squirrels shot,-and held up a bunch of tails. Among them was a large grey one. (Our common squirrel is -like the British, exactly so in colour, though his tail is hardly so bushy.) My man told me he had shown this grey squirrel to his workers, and all of them averred they had never seen one before. The overseer had seen two others, Lut had been 'unable to get Does this mean an invasion of Canadian squirrels ? Canadian steamers did call her for a feW months in the early part of the year while our local boat was under repair ; but there are no wharves at which a steamer can tie up.—I am, Sir, &c., JOHN WYLD PITCAIRN.
Marne d'Or, Tobago.
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