HOODED SQUIRREL. 
out the intervening fkin, which producing a larger furface, makes the 
animals fpecifically lighter than they would otherwife be: even with 
all this advantage, they cannot keep in a ftrait line, but are urged 
downward with their weight. Senfible of this, they mount the tree in 
proportion to the diftance of the leap they propofe to take, leaft they 
fhould fall to the ground before they had reached a place of fecurity. 
They never willingly quit the trees, or run upon the ground, be- 
ing conftant refidents of the branches. They go in troops of ten or 
twelve, and feem in their leaps, to people unaccuftomed to them, 
like leaves blown off by the wind. 
They bring three or four young at a time. They ufe the fame 
food, and form their hoards like other Squirrels. 
They are very eafily tamed, and foon grow very familiar. They 
feem of a tender nature, and to love warmth, being very fond of 
creeping to the fleeve or pocket of the owner. If they are flung 
down, they fhew their diflike to the ground, by inftantly running up 
and fheltering themfelves in his cloaths, 
Hifi. Quad. N° 284. 
QUIRREL. With the lateral fkins beginning at the ears, 
uniting under the chin, and extending, like thofe of the former, 
from fore leg to hind leg: the ears naked, and rather long: the hairs 
on the tail difpofed horizontally. 
The color of the upper part of the body reddifh: the lower part 
cinereous, tinged with yellow. 
This fpecies, according to Seba, who is the only perfon who has 
defcribed or figured it, came from Virginia*. Linnaeus is very 
confufed in his fynonyms of this and the former kind; that of 
Mr. Edwards refers to the other fpecies; and that of Seda, in his 
article of Sciurus Volans, to both tf. 
* Seb.Mu/. i. tab. xliv. p. 72. 
+ Syft. Nat. 85, where he calls it Alws Volans; and p. 88, where he ftyles it Scivras, 
R Ir 
12t 
52. Hoopep. 
