268 MAMMALIA. GLIRES. Flying-Squirrels, 



Sciurus volans fibiricus, or Siberian Flying Squirrel, of a pale afh colour. D°. 159. n. 13.— Sciu- 

 rus volans, or Flying Squirrel. Rzaczinfki, Polon. 316. Klein, Ph. Tranf. 1733, t. 35. f. 1. Seba, 

 Muf. i. 67. t. 41. f. 3. Pallas, Glir. 355.— Sciurus petaurifta volans. Klein, quad. 24. — Sciurus, f.. 

 3Mus fcythicus, Mus ponticus, Scythian or Pontic Moufe, or Squirrel, known by the name of Fly- 

 ing, which might be called Sciurus latus, or Broad Squirrel, on account of its extended fides. 

 Gefn. quad. 743. — Quadrupes volatile, or Flying quadruped, from Ruffia. Duvernoi, Com. Pe- 

 trop. v. 218.— Poulatouche, or Smaller Flying Squirrel. Sm. Buff. v. 305. pi. cxxxix. when col- 

 lapfed, and cxl. when extended. — Sciurus volans. Syft. nat. ed. Gmel. i. 154. n. 10. 



Inhabits Siberia in great numbers, and more rarely in Lapland, Livonia, and Poland. — Lives much 

 in beech woods, feeding on the buds, catkins, and tender twigs of the beech trees. Except in the fea- 

 fon of love, this fpecies lives in a folitary manner, wandering about even in the milder days, and 

 middle of the day, in winter ; it forms a neft of mofs in the hollows of trees : It is a fierce, and fe- 

 verely biting animal, which can hardly be tamed ; by means of the membrane, which extends to the 

 very bafe of the fore feet, and forms a large projecting wing on each fide; it is capable of making fur- 

 prifing leaps from tree to tree : In the month of May the female brings forth two or three, feldom, 

 four, young ones. The ears are naked and indented on the outer edges ; the eyes are full, and fur- 

 rounded with black; the body and head meafure very little more than four inches, the tail five, which, 

 in leaping, or rather flying, it extends, but, when at reft, keeps over the back, like the common fpe- 

 cies. According to the celebrated Pallas, this fpecies is larger than the American Flying Squirrel, 

 yet the individual defcribed by Mr Pennant is fomewhat lefs, fo that we- muft conclude, that both 

 kinds vary in fize ; its colour does not incline to yellowifh, but is of a whitifh ruffet on the upper, 

 parts, and pure white oa the belly and under parts of the body; the head is fhorter and more round- 

 ed than in the American fpecies ; the tail is fhorter, and contains fewer vertebrae, is fcarcely at all 

 fhaded with dufky on its upper part, and is not more than half the length of the body ; the eyes are 

 placed nearer to the nofe, and are furrounded with a darker circle; the fore legs are fhorter, and the 

 hind legs are longer, efpecially the fecond joint or. tibia, 



ry§ 5. Java Flying-Squirrel. — -28. S. Peiaurus fagitta. 11. 



Of a ferruginous brown colour on ths upper parts of the body ; the under parts pale: 

 ferruginous ; the tail very much flattened and blunt at the point. Nordgren. 



Sciurus fagitta, or Arrow Squirrel. Syft. nat.. ed.. Gmel. i. 154.11. 11.. 



Inhabits Java. — Is about the fize of the Common Squirrel, having an. oval head, with oval, blunt, 

 hairy ears, whifkers as long as the head, and one briftle on each cheek; the upper lip is divided, and 

 the. lower very fhort ; the teeth are brown, and rather blunt : The feet are of a dull reddifh colour ; 

 the fore feet have each four, and the hind feet five toes ; all the toes having the foremoft joint very 

 prominent, and are furnifhed with claws which are compreffed fideways ; the fore feet are furnifhed. 

 with a long cartilaginous or briftly fpur, as long as the fore-arm, within the membrane, which it affifts 

 to expand ; the hind legs are fringed with hair behind ; the fcrotum is large, egg-fhaped, and hairy, 

 and the prepuce is long and hairy. The membrane extends from the head, includes the fore legs to: 

 the wrifts, and as far as the knees only of the hind legs, is of the fame colour with ths body, and is 



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