TLYING MAUCAUCO. 
and Philippine islands. It resides wholly in 
trees, and feeds on the delicious fruits of those 
climes. In descending from the top to any 
inferior part of a tree, it spreads it's mem- 
brane, and balances itself to the place which 
it is desirous of reaching, in a gentk and wary 
manner ; but^ in it's ascents, it uses a sort of 
leaping motion. 
It is called, by the different Indians, who 
inhabit these countries, the Caguang, the Co- 
lugo, and the Gigua. 
The Flying Maucauco has two young at a 
time ; which adhere firmly to the maternal 
breasts by means of their mouths and claws. 
Though this animal is most certainly a very 
distin6l species from the bat, and the^flying 
squirrel ; the genus assigned it by Linnaeus, 
who classes it among Maucaucos, is by many 
naturalists considered as somewhat doubtful. 
There seems, in facl, so little decisively 
chara61:cristic of the Maucauco, more than of 
many other animals, in the Flying Muacauco, 
that 
