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HOODED FLYIXG SQUIRREL. 



Sciurus Sagitta ? ' S. Jtypochandriis prolixis volitans, cauda plano- 



pinnata lanctolata. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 88. 

 Ferruginous-brown Flying Squirrel, pale ferruginous beneath, 



with the flying-membrane commencing on each side the head. 

 Sciurus Virginianus volans. Seb. mus. i. p. 72. t. 44. f. 3. 

 Sciurus cute a capite ad caudam relaxata tolan-s. lin. Syst. Nat. 



ed. 2. p. 46. 



Hooded Squirrel. Pennant Quadr. 2. p. 155. 

 Das Kappen Eichhorn. Sc/ireb. p. 822. 



THIS, which appears to have been cpnfounded 

 by some authors with the Taguan or Great Flying 

 Squirrel, is described by Linnaeus, in the Systema 

 Natures, where it is said to be of the size of a 

 common squirrel, and of a dark ferruginous-brown 

 above, and pale-ferruginous beneath : the tail is 

 described as of the flatly-pinnated form, or with 

 the hairs spreading towards each side, and the 

 flying membrane is said to be extended from the 

 head to the fore-feet, which is not the case in any 

 species yet known, except in one described by 

 Seba, and which has been named by Mr. Pennant 

 the Hooded Squirrel. I am, therefore, strongly 

 inclined to believe, that the animal described and 

 figured by Seba is in reality the Sciurus Sagitta 

 of Linnseus. 



Seba describes the animal as rufous above and 

 pale yellow-cinereous beneath, with feet resem- 

 bling hands, and furnished with sharp crooked 

 claws ; the flying membrane commencing at the 

 head, stretching along the neck, meeting under 



