SAILING SQUIRREL. 
Pen N ANT seems to have named this animal 
he Sailing Squirrel, to distingLiish it from the 
greater Flying Squirrel of the Philosophical 
Pransaftions, vol. Ixii. which he, however, 
|.enominates the Severn River Flying Squirrel, 
The Sailing Squirrel is the Sciurus Sagitta, 
>£ Linnsus ; the Sciurus Maxiraus Volans, or 
^'elis Volans, of Brisson ; the Sciurus Petau-- 
ista, of Pallas ; the Taguan, or Great Flying 
Jquirrel, of BufFon ; the Great Flying Squirrel, 
)f Vosmaer ; and the Flying Hare, Flying 
2Wet, Flying Cat, and Indian Flying Squirrel, 
;)f various other writers. 
This animal," says Pennant, " has a 
^all rounded head ; a cloven upper lip ; small 
)lunt ears ;■ two small warts at tlie outer corner 
)f each eye, with hairs growing out of them ; 
itid a short neck. It has four toes on the fore 
"eet ; and, instead of a thumb, a slender bone, 
wo inches and a half long, lodged under the 
ateral membrane, serving to stretch it out: 
rom thence to the hind legs extends the mem- 
brane. 
