204 MamMa.iA oF INDIA. 
GENUS PTEROMYS. 
General anatomy that of the squirrel, except that the skin of the 
flanks is extended between the limbs in such a manner as to forma 
parachute when the fore and hind legs are stretched out in the act of 
springing from tree to tree. 
No. 297. PTEROMYS ORAL. 
Pteromys petaurista in Jerdon, No. 160. 
The Brown Flying Squirrel, 
Native Names.—Ora/ of the Coles; Pakya, Maharathi; Parachatea, 
Malabarese ; Eygala dandoleyna, Singhalese. 
Hasrrat.—India, wherever there are large forests ; Ceylon. 
DESCRIPTION.—Upper parts dusky maroon black grizzled with white ; 
Ptercniys oral, 
this effect being due to the ends ot the hairs being white, tipped with a 
small black point. 
The muzzle and around the eyes, and the feet are black; the limbs 
and side membrane a lighter rufous maroon; the male has an irregular 
rufous patch on the sides of the neck, according to Elhot, which in the 
female is a pale fawn colour; the tail is rather longer than the body, 
and very bushy; its terminal two-thirds or three-fourths are black or 
blackish—sometimes (rarely) a little white at the extreme tip; the 
under-parts are dingy brownish-grey or nearly white. The female has 
six mammze—two pectoral and four ventral. 
