Hi, Sandra!
On 14 Juni 1997  Sandra Peake wrote to  M.E.:
(Came in here on 23rd June.)
 SP> Subject: squirrels
 ME>> Fall. At ours they first found the curl-hazelnuttree and took off the
 ME>> little nuts. These nuts are smaller than normal hazelnuts.
 SP>   I don't know what variety they would be. We have the filbert (hazelnut
The latin name is Corylus 'Contorta'.
 SP>   -Corylus) growing wild in our fencerows, and also the beechnut tree
The corylus avellana grows also wild here in Belgium.
 SP>   (Fagus grandifolia) with its tiny 3 seeded nuts. It is a very
 SP> pretty tree, in my opinion, but its many-branched habit makes it a
 SP> trash tree to loggers.
Here are beechnuts also growing wild, but the variety grandifolia is a 
typical American one, (as my lexicon is telling me).
 ME>> the Latin names for them.
 SP>   Sure thing, Maria. :-) I don't know why, but we have different
 SP>   family names for these related animals. Here are a few:
 SP>   red squirrel     - Tamiasciurus hudsonicus
 SP>   gray squirrel    - Sciuris carolinensis
 SP>   Eastern chipmunk - Tamias striatus (striped)
 SP>   Least chipmunk   - Eutamias minimus
 SP>   Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel - Spermophilus tridecemlineatus
 SP>   Well, at least you can see a bit of family in the tamias. :-)
 SP>                           ...Sandra...
Thanks for that nice list, but could only find out that it are animals who 
live only in Northern America, so USA and Canada. As you could see in a 
previous message from ME in this echo, we only have two kinds of squirrels 
here in Europe.
Will still try to go to the library and have a look in their books, maybe I 
can find there some picture/drawing from above animals.
Keep you up informed.
Greets.
    Maria
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