Chap. I.] 



SQUIRRELS. 



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IV. Eodentia. Squirrels. — Smaller animals in great 

 numbers enliven the forests and lowland plains with 



FLYING SQUIRREL. 



their graceful movements. Squirrels \ 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. Soc. the mountains, one which is pe- 

 Beng. vol. vi. p. 56. culiar to Ceylon was discovered 



