FLYING SQUI REELS. 61 



were found in Eussia which could fly from tree to tree. 

 The worthy bishop doubts the truth of the statement, 

 and considers that they were but common squirrels 

 that possessed unusual agility, and could spring ra- 

 pidly from one branch of a tree to another. It is, how- 

 ever, asserted by travellers that a flying squirrel exists 

 in the Kocky Mountains of North America, and in 

 Fernando Po. 



Squirrel soup is by no means uncommon in Norwe- 

 gian country districts, and is not to be despised. 



