22, SEVERN RIVER SQUIRREL... 
It is fingular that there fhould be only one fpecimen ever brought of 
this fpecies, from a country we have had fuch great intercourfe with. 
It may perhaps be a monftrous variety,.by the extent of the fkin into 
afortofhood. As to-color, that is an accidental difference, which: 
happens to numbers of other animals, 
53. SEVERN Hift. Quad, N° 282. 
RIvER, Greater Flying Squirrel, PA. Zr. Ixii. 379. 
QUIRREL. With the hair on the body and: fides of a deep 
cinereous color at the bottom; the ends ferruginous : breaft and’ 
belly of a yellowifh white: the whole coat long and full: the tail 
thick of long hairs, difpofed in a lefs flatted manner than thofe of 
the European kind ; brown on the upper fide, darkeft at the end ; the 
lower part of the fame color with the belly: the lateral fkin, the 
inftrument of flight,.difpofed from leg to leg, in the fame manner. 
as in the firft fpecies, N° 51. : 
In fize it is far fuperior to the common Flying Squirrel, being at: 
left equal to the Engli/b kind. 
This {pecies is found in the fouthern parts of Hud/on’s Bay, in the: 
forefts of the country bordering on Severn river in Fames’s bay.. 
A, Common. Hi. Quad. N° 266.—Smellie, iv. 268.—Lrv. Muss. 
QUIRREL. With tufted ears: head, body, and legs, ferru= 
ginous : breaft and belly white: tail reddifh brown. 
This fpecies inhabits the northern world, as high as Lapmark; is 
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