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Us with violence. I went out feveral times with 
my gun, and with fome fuccefs; for I procured 
for my colledion two charming fpecies of 
animals with which I was before unac- 
quainted. 
One, of the fquirrel genus, but longer and 
more flender than the Canadian fquirrel de- 
fcribed by BufFon, is a new fpecies. It ia- 
ifabella-coloured on the back and fides ; the tail 
partly the fame, partly white ; the belly white ; 
and it has a band of white alfo the whole 
length of the flank on each fide. Its hair re- 
fembles the quills of the porcupine rather than 
the fur of the fquirrel. That on the tail, 
which is long and bufhy, has a degree of 
flexibility in confequence of its length ; but 
that on the body is hard and HifF^ fo much fo, 
that, when ftruck with a fl:ick, thie hairs give a 
kind of milling found againfl: each other, like 
the porcupine's quills. All the movements of 
the animal, like thofe of the fquirrel, are light 
and graceful ; and like the fquirrel alfo, when 
running, it fpreads its fine tail. The Greater 
Nimiquas call it aguimp, I killed a male and 
female at one fhot. The female differs only in 
being a little lefs, and having a colour more 
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