FLYING COLUGO. 
the Philippine Islands, published in the Philo-, 
sophical Transactions by Pctiver, the Cato-i 
Simius Volans, is described as being about the 
size of a Cat; and shaped like a Monkey, but 
more slender. It is, he says, generally three 
spans long, from head to tail: but grows, in 
some particular places, to a much larger size; 
so as to equal, in it's expansion, the magnitude 
of a Chinese umbrella. The upper parts of 
the animal he describes as of a dusky colour, 
elegantly variegated with whitish streaks on 
the back, which run beyond the body over 
the membrane or flying skin. He compares 
the face to that of a Monkey ; and the man- 
ner of the animal's flight to that of the Flying 
Squirrel. The young, he adds, adhere to the 
teats of their mother, by the mouth and claws. 
In a Latin manuscript of Camelli's, preserved 
in the British Museum, he expressly asserts, 
that the Female is furnished with tw r o sacs or 
pouches on her belly, in which she carries her 
young while the}/- are sucking. v 
From this last circumstance, we are induced 
to suppose, that the animal may approximate 
the race of Opossums more than has hitherto 
been 
