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of a fine ferruginous red, edged only with black. This animal lives in pine trees, 

 of which the cones are its food; it lies dormant the greater part of the winter. 



14. Greater Flying Squirrel. Severn river. 



It is equal in size, if not larger than the common squirrel; has pretty long 

 hairs, dusky at bottom, tawny brown at the very tips only; and disposed so that 

 the back appears wholly of that reddish brown colour; the tail is very bushy, 

 somewhat compressed, but not pinnated (i. e. with the hairs disposed horizontally 

 on each side of it, as for example in the common squirrel), it is brownish on the 

 upperside with a dusky tip, of a yellowish white below ; the whole underside of 

 the animal has the same yellowish white colour. The membrane reaches from 

 the fore feet to the hind feet, without extending to the ears: it is found in 

 James's Bay, about 51° north latitude. This is perhaps Linnaeus's Sciurusvolans, 

 and the same with the flying squirrel of the arctic parts of Europe. Mr. Brisson 

 seems to have confounded this and the little Virginian squirrel together, and his 

 quotations are quite confused. Linnaeus's Mus volans certainly is a variety of 

 the little flying squirrel, of the milder parts of North America, New -York, 

 Pennsylvania, Virginia, which is vastly different from this in size and colour. 



15. A small animal, called a Field Mouse. Churchill river. 



A specimen in very bad preservation, wanting legs, tail, &c. which makes it 

 impossible to determine of what species it is; its size is somewhat superior to 

 that of a mouse, its colour dusky, mixed with tawny brown, and dirty white on 

 the belly; its head is broad, like that of the short-tailed field mouse, and has a 

 dusky line in the middle between the eyes, which extends, though rather 

 indistinctly, all along the back; its ears are very small and roundish. 



*6. This is likewise a very bad mutilated specimen, less than the common 

 mouse, dusky, and brown above, and whitish below; its ears are pretty large 

 and prominent. 



17. Field Mouse. Penn. Syn. Quad. p. 30'2, n. 230. Mus sylvaticus, Linn. 

 Two specimens; the descriptions answer pretty well; the ears are large and 



round; the tail is very long, and whitish below. 



18. Short-tailed Mouse. Penn. Syn. Quad. p. 305, n. 233. Mus terrestris, 

 Linn. Le Campagnol de BufFon. 



Mr. Pennant's admeasurements do not quite answer, but M. D'Aubenton's 

 coincide. 



19. Fetid Shrew. Penn. Syn. Quad. p. 307, n. 235. Sorex Araneus, Linn. 

 The specimen is much blacker on the back than the European shrew, its sides 



are reddish brown. 



20. Shrew ; two specimens. The colour is of a dusky grey above, and a dirty 

 white or yellowish below; the nose is very long and slender; the length from the 

 nose to the tail, in the one specimen is 24-, in the other almost 2 inches ; the tail 



