MAMMALIA. GLIRES. Squirrel. 257 



bark as a boat, erecting its broad tail to the wind as a fail. The fkins are efteemed a valuable fur, 

 efpecially when caught in winter, and the flefli is reckoned very good. It procreates in March or 

 April, and the fern-ale, after a month, brings forth from three or four to feven young ones, and breeds 

 twice a year. In fpring the females are fecn ikipping from tree to tree, as if endeavouring to avoid 

 the embraces of the male. They are preyed on by the martin, and other animals of the Muftela and 

 Viverra tribes, by fsrpents, and by birds "of prey. 



539 1, White-legged Squirrel. — Sciurus albipes. 



The ears are flightly tufted with black hair ; the upper parts of the body are reddifli 

 brown, the under parts and legs white, and the tail dufky. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 266.7. 

 Brit. Muf. 



Inhabits Ceylon, according to the Catalogue in the Britifh Mufeum. — The head, whole upper part 

 of the body, fides and toes, are reddifli brown •, the face, nofe, underfide of the neck, infide of the 

 ears, breaft, belly, fore legs, and infide of the hind thighs, are white ; the tail is -long, and covered 

 with dufky hair, which is much fhorter than in the common kind. 



£aq 3. Black Squirrel. — 2. Sciurus niger. 2. 



Of a black colour, with plain ears. Erxleb. mam. 417. Schreber, iv. 776. t. ccxv. 



Sciurus niger, or Black Squirrel. Syft. nat. ed. xii. i. 86. Klein, quad. 53. Brill", quad. 582. 

 Catefb. Carol, ii. 73. t. 73. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 273. Arcl. zool. n. 50. — Quahtechalotl tlililt- 

 lic, Sciurus Mexicanus, or Mexican Squirrel. Hernand. mex. 582. Fernand. ncv. hifp. 8. 



<ai /3. White-nofed Black Squirrel.— Sc, niger albirojlro. 



Has plain ears : Of a black colour marked with white on the nofe, neck, and extremi- 

 ty of the tail. Penn. hift. -of quad. n. 27.3. pi. xliii. f. 2. 



Inhabits North America, Mexico, and New Spain; Mr Pennant fays likewife in the north of Afia. — 

 Is of the fame fize with the common fpecies, but has a fhorter tail ; it lives in large troops, and 

 makes terrible havock among the maize or Indian corn. 



542 4« Vulpine Squirrel.— 3. Sciurus njulpinus. 8. 



Of a large fize, and ruddy colour, mixed with black and dirty white, having plain ears. 



Penn. hift. of quad. n. 273. p. 

 . Pox Squirrel, called likewife Cat Squirrel by the planters. Lawfon, Carolin. 124. 



543 |8. White Vulpine Squirrel. — Sc. n)ulp. albus. 



Of a white colour, with the throat, and infide of the legs and thighs black. Penn. 1/ 



of quad. p. 4 j 1 . 

 . .VojU I- K k Inhabits 



