APPENDIX. 
THE HEPOONA ROO. 
This animal is of the fize of a fmall rabbit : it has a broad 
flat body, the head a good deal refembles that of the fquir- 
rel: the eyes are full, prominent, and large : the ears broad 
and thin : its legs fhort, and its tail very long. Between 
the fore and hind legs, on each iide, is placed a doubling of 
the fkin of the iide, which, when the legs are extended 
laterally, is as it were pulled out, forming a broad lateral wing 
or fin, and when the legs are made ufe of in walking, this 
Ikin, by its elaflicity, is drawn clofe to the fide of the animal, 
and forms a kind of ridge, on which the hair has a peculiar 
appearance. In this refpedl it is very fimilar to the flying 
fquirrel of America. 
It has five toes on each fore foot, with fharp nails. The 
hind foot has alfo five toes, but differs confiderably 
from the fore foot ; one of the toes may be called a thumb, 
having a broad nail, fomething like that of the Monkey or 
OpoflTum : what anfwers to the fore and middle toes are 
united in one common covering, and appear like one toe 
with 
