NORTH AMERICA, 
or compelled to purfue them. They commit 
depredations on young pigs, lambs, poultry, 
&c. 
The mole is not lb common here as in the north- 
ern efliates. 
The bats of Florida feem to be the fame fpecies of 
thofe Jn Pennfylvania and Virginia, and very little 
different from the European. 
Here are feveral fpecies of fquirrels, (feiurus) 
peculiar to the lower countries, or maritime parts of 
Carolina and the Floridas, and fome of them are 
very beautiful creatures. 
The great black fox fquirrel is above two feet 
in length from the nofe to the end of the tail ? 
which for about two inches is milk white, as are 
the ears and nofe. The red fox fquirrel is of the 
fame fize and form, of a light reddith brown upper 
fide, and white under fide, the ears and tip end of 
the tail white. 
The grey fox fquirrel is rather larger than 
either of the foregoing ; their belly white, as are 
the ears, nofe, and tip of the tail. Thefe three 
feem to be.varieties of the fame fpecies. 
The common grey fquirrel is about half the flze of 
the preceding. 
The black fquirrel is about die fame fize, and atL 
oyer of a mining jet black. 
The little grey fquirrel is much lefs than either of 
the preceding fpecies ; it is of a brownifh grey upper 
fide, and white belly. 
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