Cuar. I.] SQUIRRELS. 41 
IV. Ropentra. Squirrels.— Smaller animals in great 
numbers enliven the forests and lowland plains with 
FLYING SQUIRREL, 
their graceful movements. Squirrels!, of which there 
are a great variety, make their shrill metallic call heard 
rows, and being carnivorous and 1 Of two kinds which frequent 
ranivorous ?—Vide Journ. As. Soc, the mountains, one which is pe- 
Beng. vol. vi. p. 56. “ culiar to Ceylon was discovered 
