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SQUIRRELS. 
IV. Eodentia. Squirrels. — Smaller animals in great 
numbers enliven the forests and lowland plains with 
FLYING SQUIRREL. 
their graceful movements. Squirrels * 3 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, Soe. the mountains, one which is pe- 
Beng. vol. vi. p. 56. culiar to Ceylon was discovered 
