SMALL POLK WITH LIVELY FEET. 



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color is a 

 so loose- 



volans volans, Sciuropterus volucella, Geoffrey) ; 

 but he is out only after sunset, and does not often 

 appear on the highway. His 

 brownish gray, and his skin is 

 ly adjusted to his body that he 

 can spread it out in a wide ex- 

 panse and slide through the 

 air from tree to tree on 

 a flying leap of fully 

 fifty feet. It is said 

 that on extra occasions 

 he can stretch this dis 



tance to one hundred The Flying squirrel. 



and fifty feet ; but 1 am confident of the fact that 



this is merely a fall, after the fashion of a parachute. 



Even the red squirrel can fall a matter of thirty feet 



with no inconvenience to his anat- 



A flying leap. 



omy, and there is no doubt but that a flying squirrel 

 can sail a hundred feet or so through the air with all 

 the semblance of a long leap, but in reality the dis- 

 tance covered laterally is not so very great. This 



