SQUIRRELS. By Monica Shorten. New Naturalist Monograph No. 12.

1954 1st edition. Small 8vo (138 x 206mm). Ppxii,212. Colour, b/w photograph plates, b/w illustrations, maps, bibliography. Green buckram, spine titled in gilt.

This splendid book is the result of more than ten year's research into grey and red squirrels. Comprehensive examination of their biology, ecologyand distribution, in North America as well as in Britain. The author also discusses the retreat of the red squirrel in some detail. Chapters include; classification; general characteristics of the red squirrel; general charateristics of the grey squirrel; history of the red squirrel in Britain to 1945; history of the grey squirrel in Britain to 1945; present distribution of both species; activity; breeding of the grey squirrel; development; the coat of the grey squirrel; squirrels and trees; relationship between red and grey squirrels; human control.