. Animal snapshots and how made . these tricolored warriors. The gray squirrel has other enemies in feathers,such as the goshawk and the red tailed hawk. Asingle hawk, however, can scarcely catch a graysquirrel, especially if the squirrel remains on the treetrunk, which he probably will be wise enough to do,thus being enabled, by dodging, to evade the hawksclaws. I never witnessed, an encounter of this kindbut once, and certainly the squirrel was up to thetrick; for he eluded the hawk in the most exasperat-ing manner, chattering and barking the while in amost impudent tone, Quarquarqua-qua-qua
. Animal snapshots and how made . these tricolored warriors. The gray squirrel has other enemies in feathers,such as the goshawk and the red tailed hawk. Asingle hawk, however, can scarcely catch a graysquirrel, especially if the squirrel remains on the treetrunk, which he probably will be wise enough to do,thus being enabled, by dodging, to evade the hawksclaws. I never witnessed, an encounter of this kindbut once, and certainly the squirrel was up to thetrick; for he eluded the hawk in the most exasperat-ing manner, chattering and barking the while in amost impudent tone, hawk was angry, the feathers on its head andneck being rufHed as was its spirit. At last it wasobliged to retire, leaving the squirrel at his have been informed, however, that the squirrel doesnot always get off so nicely, for sometimes the red-tails hunt in pairs, and then the squirrel has no chancefor his life. Gray squirrels are very fond of music, says Dr. Merriam. The doctor in speaking of this men-. m«o Cf The Gray Squirrel 141 tions his experiments with some squirrels which fre-quented a box of nuts that his father supplied forthem during the winter. As I have never myselfobserved this, I wish to quote from this eminentauthority: They were extremely fond of music, and it affectedthem in a peculiar manner. Some were not onlvfascinated, but actually spellbound, by the music-boxor guitar. And one particularly weak minded indi-vidual was so unrefined in his taste that if I advancedslowly, whistling Just before the Battle, Mother,in as pathetic a tone as I could muster for the occa-sion, he would permit me even to stroke his back,sometimes expressing his pleasure by making a lowpurring sound. This was a Gray, and I several timesapproached and stroked him as above described. Ionce succeeded in getting near enough to a Black totouch him, whereupon he instantly came to his sensesand fled. When listening to music, they all acted invery much the same way
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