CAT AND BLACK SQUIRREL. 
can provoke it to get out of its afylum. They run up and down the 
bodies of trees, but very rarely leap from one to the other. 
They are eafily made tame; will even be brought to play with 
cats and dogs, which in a ftate of domefticity will not hurt them. 
They will alfo attach themfelves fo far as to follow children to and 
from the woods. 
They agree in their manner of feeding with the European kinds ; 
and have all the fame fort of attitudes. 
SQUIRREL. With coarfe fur, mixed with dirty white and 
black : the throat, and infide of the legs and thighs, black: the tail 
is much fhorter than is ufual with Squizrels, and of a dull yellow, 
mixed with black : in fize equal to that of the Grey. 
Inhabits Virginia. Mr. Knaphan, in whofe collection I found it, 
informed me, that the planters called it the Cat Squirrel. 
I fufpect that this animal is only a variety. Law/on * fays,. 
that he has feen the Grey fpecies pied, reddifh, and black; but this 
point muft be determined by natives of the countries which they 
inhabit, who, from obfervation, may decide by their manners, or 
their colors, in different feafons, or periods of life. 
_ Hift. Quad. N° 273.—Brown’s Zoology, tab. xlviii—Lerv. Mus. 
QUIRREL. With white ears, nofe, and feet: the body totally 
black : the tail black, tipt with white: in fize equal to the 
former. 
Thefe fometimes vary: there being examples of individuals which 
are wholly deftitute of any white marks. The beautiful figure of 
one of thefe animals from Eaf Florida, in Mr. Brown’s Zoology, has 
ears edged with white, and a much longer tail than ufual, 
* Hift, Carol, 124, 
Q4 Inhabits: 
119 
8. Cant: 
50, Brack. 
