FAT SQUIRREL. 
BUFFON denominates this animal the Loir, 
or Fat Squirrel: as we have copied his figure? 
we have adopted the latter name, though we 
consider it rather as a species of the Dor- 
mouse, than of the Squirrel. 
It is, in fact, the Myoxus Glis, of Gmelin's 
Linnaeus; though, in the twelfth edition of 
the Systema Naturse, it was denominated 
Sciurus Canus, or the Hoary Squirrel, with a 
whitish belly. Klein calls it, Sciurus Epi- 
lepticus: Brisson, Mus Cauda, Pilosa ; Pallas, 
Mus Glis; Gesner, Aldrovandus, Johnston, 
and Ray, Glis.; and Pennant, in his Synop- 
sis, with Burl on, the Loir, or Fat Squirrel; 
but, afterwards, in his History of Quadrupeds, 
the Fat Dormouse. 
BufPon seems to consider the Loir, or Fat 
Squirrel, as the first or largest species of a 
distinct genus ; the Lerot, or Garden Squirrel, 
the second, or lesser; and the Muscardin, or 
Dormouse, the third, and least. 
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