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14. Greater flying Squirrel, 

 Severn River. 



It is equal in fize, if not bigger than the com- 

 mon fquirrel ; has pretty long hairs, dufky 

 at bottom, tawny brown at the very tips 

 only; and difpofed fo that the back appears 

 wholly of that reddifh brown colour; the 

 tail is very bufhy, fomewhat comprefTed, but 

 not pinnated (i. e. with the hairs difpofed 

 horizontally on each fide of it, as for example 

 in the common fquirrel), it is brcwnifh on the 

 upperfide with a dufky tip, of a yellowifh. 

 white below ; the whole underfide of the ani- 

 mal has the fame yellowifli white colour. The 

 membrane reaches from the forefeet to the 

 hindfeet, without extending to the ears : it is 

 found in James's Bay, about 51 north lati- 

 tude. 

 This is perhaps Linneus's Sciurus volans^ and 

 the fame with the Hying fquirrel of the Arctick 

 parts of Europe. Mr. BrifTon feems to have 

 confounded this, and the little Virginian fquir- 

 rel together, and his quotations are quite con- 

 fufed. Linneus's Mm ijolans certainly is a 

 variety of the little flying fquirrel. of the milder 

 parts of North America, New York, Penn- 

 sylvania, Virginia^ which is vaflly different 

 from this in lize and colour. 



%Xi A small Animal, called a Field Moufe. 

 Churchill River. 



A fpecimen in very bad prefervation, wanting 



legs, tail, &c . which makes it impcilible to de- 



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