PM Johnston Douglas Squirrel Tamiasciurus hudsonicus 23 Aug. The squirrel started behind the trunk and appeared again in about 20 seconds with a cone in his mouth. Whether he got it from his cache below ground or from those lying about on the surface, I did not see. He sat on a horizontal limb, the weight of his body balanced on his hind limbs, tail lying appressed to his back, in a crouched position and proceeded to eat the cone, holding it in his fore paws. The cone was 2 1/2" x 1". Started at the base, biting off every scale at a time, one about 4 seconds. Took him 2 min. + 70 sec. to eat it.—dropped the bare core when finished. Around the base of the tree a pile of cone scales+ cores about 2 feet high sloped away from the trunk. When running, up or down the trunk or along the horizontal limbs the squirrel would keep his hind legs stretched out in back of him, not straight