322 November 1748. 



or wherever they go, without their ever at- 

 tempting to eicape : if even they put their 

 fquirrel afide, it leaps upon them again im- 

 mediately, creeps either into their bofom, 

 or their fleeve, or any fold of the clothes, 

 and lies down to fleep : its food is the fame 

 with that of the grey fquirrel. 



There is a fmall fpecies of fquirrels 

 abounding in the woods, which the Englijh 

 call ground Squirrels, Catejby hasdefcribed 

 and drawn them from life, in the 2d. Vol. 

 of his Natural Hi/lory of Carolina, p. j§, 

 tab. 75, and Edwards in his Natural Htf- 

 tory of Birds, t. 181.* He and Dr. Lin- 

 nceus call it Sciurus Jiriatus, or the freaked 

 Squirrel. Thefe do not properly live in 

 trees, as others of this genus, but dig holes 

 in the ground (much in the fame manner 

 as rabbets) in which they live, and whither 

 they take refuge when they perceive any 

 danger. Their holes go deep, and com- 

 monly further inwards divide into many 

 branches. They are alfo cunning enough 



to 



* As Catejby and Edwards have both reprefented the flying 

 Squirrel in a fitting attitude, I have given here, plate I. a fi- 

 gure of one with the expanded membrane, and joined to it on. 

 the fame plate, a more accurate figure of the ground Squirrel. 



It is not yet made out with certainty, whether the Ameri- 

 tan flying fquirrel, and that found in Finland and in the 

 north of Europe and A/ia, be the fame animal. The Ameri- 

 can kind has a flat pennated tail, but the European kind a 

 round one, which affords a very diftinguifhing character. F. 



