Britain Lars on      The sparrow, once the valued scavenger of city streets,

Gray. Squirrel  has long been proscribed in England, says a report in the

Now York Times.  Now the British Ministry of Agriculture 
has issued a similar ukase against the gray squirrel, and has advised all

rural Britain to unite for its extermination as a menace to agriculture,

horticulture and bird life, In 1931 the numbers of gray squirrels were 
greatly reduced, mainly by an epidemic disease. Investigations in 1934 
and 1935, however, showed that the species had'made a substantial recov-

ery and was spreading over fresh areas.