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or wherever they go, without their ever at- 

 tempting to efcape : if even they put their 

 fquirrel afide, it leaps upon them again im- 

 jnediately, creeps either into their bofom, 

 or their fleeve, or any fold of the clothes, 

 and lies down to fleep : its food is the fame 

 with that of the grey fquirrel. 



There is a fmall fpecies of fquirrels 

 abounding in the woods, which the Rnglijh 

 call ground Squirrels. Catejby has defcribed 

 and drawn them from life, in the 2d. Vol. 

 of his Natural Hiflory of Carolinay p. y^^_ 

 tab. 'j^j and Edwards in his Natural Htf- 

 tory of Birds y t. 181.* He and Dr. Lin- 

 nceus call it Sciurus Jiriatus, or the freaked 

 Squirrel. Thefe do not properly live in 

 trees, as others of this genus, but dig holes 

 in the ground (much in the fame manner 

 as rabbets) in which they live, and whither 

 they take refuge when they perceive any 

 danger. Their holes go deep, and com- 

 monly further inwards divide into many 

 branches. They are alfo cunning enough 



to 



- f As Catejby and Ednuardt have both reprefented the Jiying 

 Squirrel in a fitting attitude, I have given here, plate I a fi- 

 gure of one with the expanded membrane, and joined to it on 

 Si^, farne plate, a more accurate figure of the ground Squirrel. 

 It is nor yet made out with certainty, whether the Ameri- 

 tan flyincr fquirrel, and that fotfnd in Finland and in the 

 north of Eurofe and Ajta^ be the fame animal. The Ameri- 

 t^n kind has a flat pennated tail,' but the Eutepean kind a 

 roind one, which affords a very diftinguifhing charafter. F. 



