Flying Squirrel 
3. Labrador Red Squirrel. S. hudsonicus (Erxleben). Red 
colour in winter paler, fringe on tail yellowish or gray, 
lower parts decidedly gray. 
Range. Labrador and Hudson Bay region to Alaska. 
Numerous red squirrels inhabit the Western States, those 
on the North West coast being quite brown in color. 
Flying Squirrel 
Sciuropterus volans (Linnzus) 
Length. 9.40 inches. 
Description. Fur soft, dense and mole-like; skin of the sides 
produced and susceptible of being spread out when the legs 
are extended, so as to form a sort of parachute. Drab above, 
irregularly tinged with russet, slightly brighter in summer; 
under parts pure white to the roots of the hair. 
Range. Northern New York and Southern New England to 
Georgia and west to the plains. A slightly different variety 
replaces this in Florida, while in the Northern part of its 
range there occurs a much larger, quite different species. 
(See below.) 
Flying squirrels are so persistently nocturnal that it is ex- 
tremely difficult to learn much about their habits. Yet they are 
such beautiful, gentle, dreamy-eyed little forest folk, that one can- 
not help wishing to know more about them. What do they do 
with themselves in the quiet woods all night long, pattering 
about among the leaves? 
If you watch with exceeding patience, you may see them in 
the dim light sailing from one tree to the next, but life is hardly 
long enough to learn much about them in this manner. 
When you have found a flying-squirrel tree it is easy 
enough to rap on the bark with a stick and rout them out 
into daylight, and make them show off their power of flying to 
your satisfaction; but that will be about all you will get out of 
them at such times. 
I have made them come out on dark cloudy days and 
watched them patiently, but their patience far exceeded mine; in 
fact, | am not quite sure that they did not even go to sleep clinging 
there against the bark, like lichens, which they so much resem- 
bled as to suggest that their clouded cream buff colouring might 
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