Grey Squirrel
there appears to be an oblique reference to the grey squirrel in A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue in a Latin quotation dated 1331. The quotation refers to pure, which, the dictionary tells us, is the belly fur of the grey squirrel. This is puzzling, since the grey squirrel is native to North America, a place which was not, according to many authorities, discovered until 1492. The grey squirrel was first released into the wild in the nineteenth century and is a common sight in Edinburgh parks, where they live on a diet of mutton pies and egg sandwiches.