Douglas squirrel Tamiasciurus hudsonicus 11 Sept. ascent up the tree. Pauses were mostly made at horizontal limbs, but not always. Twice out of the eight times of pausing during the ascent he stop- ped on the vertical surface of the trunk. The squirrel got to the very top, climb- ed out to the ends of the highest horizontal branches which were about 1/2" -> 3/4" in diam., and began biting off the cones! He would throw each cone outward away from the center of the spruce rather than just letting them drop. He bit off a cone about every 3-4 seconds. When the cones were cleaned from the first array of lower branches, the squirrel dropped down to the second array of H. branches and cleaned them of cones. The squirrel worked in that spruce for twelve minutes, then jumped to an adjacent