204 THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
Squirrel Club accounted for 46,000 animals in Inverness-shire and
Ross-shire in the ten years preceding 1913. So that, taking
everything into consideration, the future of the squirrel, whether
the red or the grey kind, in this country is not too bright.
APPENDIX A.
Bibliographical Note.
1. 1915. Watt, Hugh Boyd,—" The American Grey Squirrel in Britain,"
The Field, 12th June. Reprinted as a pamphlet.
2. 1917. Thomas, Oldfield.—" The Grey Squirrel in England," The
Field, 26th April; giving a letter from Mr. E. W. Nelson, head
of the Bureau of Biological Survey, Washington, D.C.
3. 1920. Ritchie, James.—The Influence of Man on Animal Life in
Scotland, pp. 238-290 ; Remarks on the grey squirrel.
4. 1921. Barrett-Hamilton, G. E. H., and Hinton, Martin, A. C.—
A History of British Mammals, pt. 21, pp. 718-720. Addendum
to article on the red squirrel.
5. 1921. Knight, C. W. R.—Wild Life in the Tree-Tops, pp. 49-50.
Remarks on the decay of the red squirrel and increase of the
grey one in Kent.
6. 1922. Pocock, R. I,—"The Grey Squirrel in Great Britain," The
Field, 28th January, p. 135.
APPENDIX B.
Abstract of Information received from H.M. Office of Works as
to the American Grey Squirrel in the Royal Parks in London
and the Neighbourhood, January, 1923.