FLYING SQUIRREL 



slate-colored at base; head grayish, ears light brown; tail 

 above, similar to back, but without pinkish suffusion, below, 

 light pinkish cinnamon; hind feet hair-brown, toes white. 



Underparts. — White to roots of hairs, underside of flying 

 membrane edged with pinkish cinnamon. 



Summer specimens are usually darker and redder than 

 winter animals. 



Measurements.— Total length, 9-9.5 inches; tail vertebra;, 

 3.6-4.4 inches; hind foot, 1.2 inches. 



Geographical Distribution.— A large part of forested North 

 America. 



Food.— Nuts, seeds, berries, buds, grain, occasional insects, 

 meat when it can be secured. 



Enemies. — Owls, Martens, and Foxes; Weasels and small 

 carnivores on the rare occasions when it comes onto the 

 ground. 



Species and Subspecies of the Genus Glaucomys 

 Volans Group 



Small Eastern Flying Squkr el.—Glaucomys volans volans 

 (Linuceus). 

 The animal of the preceding description. Found in 

 " Northeastern United States and extreme southern Canada, 

 from central Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, southern 

 Ontario, northern New York (Lewis Countv), and southern 

 New Hampshire south to North Carolina" (Raleigh), Ten- 

 nessee (Nashville), and northern Arkansas and Oklahoma 

 (Boston Mountains) ; west to eastern Nebraska (Otoe and 

 Nemaha Counties) and eastern Kansas (Douglas and Wood- 

 son Counties)." (Howell) 



Southeastern Flying Squirrel.— G/a«cowzy^ volans saturatus 

 Howell, 

 Size of typical volans but upperparts darker, snuff-brown to 

 hair-brown; toes not conspicuously white. Found in 

 "Southeastern United States (excepting peninsular Florida 

 and the coast region of Georgia) from South Carolina and 

 western North Carolina west to central Oklahoma and 

 north m the Mississippi Valley to southwestern Kentucky " 

 (Howell) 



Florida Flying Squirrel.— G/awcomy.? volans querceti (Bangs). 

 Resembling typical volans; equalling it in size but darker 

 above and lacking white toes; soles of feet always partially 

 naked; not so dark in color as saturatus. Found in " Penin- 

 sular Florida (south at least to Fort Myers) and the coast 

 region of Georgia." (Howell) 



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