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SEVERN RIVER FLYING SQUIRREL. 



Sciurus Sabrinus. S, volUans, supra ex rubicundo fuscus, subtus 



ex Jlavescente albidtis, cauda mllosa planiuscula. 

 Ferruginous-brown Flying Squirrel, yellowish white beneath, 



with slightly flattish villose tail. 

 Sciurus Hudsonius. Lin. Si/st. Nat. Gmel. p, 153. 

 Greater Flying Squirrel. Phil. Trans, vol, 62. p. 379. 

 Severn River Squirrel. Pennant Quadr. 2. p. 153. 



This is said to be at least equal in size to a 

 common English squirrel, and is of a ferruginous 

 ash-colour on the upper parts^ and yellowish- 

 white beneath : the flying-skin is disposed from 

 leg to leg, as in the common flying squirrel, and 

 the fur on the whole body is long and full : the 

 tail also is well haired, but has less of the flat ap- 

 pearance than that of the European flying squir- 

 rel. It is found in the southern parts of Hudson's 

 Bay, in the forests bordering on Severn river in 

 James s Bay, and seems to have been first de- 

 scribed by Dr. Forster in the Philosophical Trans- 

 actions. I have given this species a new trivial, 

 in order to avoid the repetition of the title Hud- 

 sonius, which takes place, through oversight, in 

 the Gmelinian edition of the Systema Naturae. 



