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EUROPEAN FLYING SQUIRREL. 
in the town of Tom/k, in deferted houfes, and in the towers of the forti- 
fications ; where numbers are taken alive, and of great fize, by the 
children of the place. 
A beautiful and large variety, about the Baraba, called the Teleu- 
tian, is in great efteem for its beautiful grey color, like a Gull’s 
back, with a filvery glofs, and finely undulated. Their fummer 
color is ufually dufky red, and the fides and feet black. Thefe are 
highly efteemed by the Chine/e, and fell at the rate of 6 or 7/. fterling 
per thoufand * 
A fimall variety of this, leffer even than the common kind, is met 
with about the neighborhood of the Ka/ym and Jet. 
A variety is alfo met with which change to a white color; and 
others again retain a white color both in winter and fummer. 
The late navigators to the Icy fea brought home with them from 
Pulo Condor, a knot of iflands in north lat. 8.40. on the coaft of 
Cambodia, a Squirrel totally black. 
European Firing SQuirret, Hift, Quad, N° 285.—Smelliz, v. 307-—Lev. Mus» 
es spihen With naked ears: flying membranes extending 
from the middle of the hind legs to. the bafe of the fore feet, 
and fpreading there in a rounded fail: tail full of hair, and round at 
the end: color of the upper part of the body a fine grey, like that 
of a Gull’s back: the lower part white. 
Length to the tail four inches and. a quarter; of the tail, five. 
Inhabits the birch-woods of Finmark, Lapland, Finland, Lithuania, 
and Livonia. Is found in 4fia, in the woods of the Urallian chain, 
and from thence to the river Kolyma. Neftles in the hollows of trees 
remote from the ground, where it makes its neft of the fofteft mofles. 
Is always folitary, except in the breeding-feafon, and never appears. 
* Mem. Ruf: Afats Vile 124. 
