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to seven young are born. They come out to play about sun- 

 set, and are as sportive as schoolboys playing tag. In cap- 

 tivity they are quite worthless for exhibition, for in the day- 



THE FLYING SQUIRREL. 



time there is nothing to be seen save a small and wholly 

 uninteresting ball of fur. 



Three species (and nine subspecies) have been described, 

 and their range covers the eastern United States from Can- 

 ada to Florida, and westward lo Louisiana. On the Pacific 



