SAILING SQUIRREL. 
brane, which Is broad, and a continuation of 
the skin of the sides and belfy. The membrane 
extends along the fore-legs, and stretches out 
near the joint in a winged form. There are 
five toes on the hind feet ; and, on all the toes, 
there are sharp, compressed, bent claws. The 
tail is covered with long hairs disposed hori- 
zontally. The colour of the head, body? and 
tail, is a bright bay ; in some parts, inclining 
to orange. The breast, and belly, are of a yel- 
lowish white. The length, from nose to tail, 
is eighteen inches ; the tail, fifteen inches. It 
inhabits Java, and other Indian Islands ; leaps 
from tree to tree, as if it flew ; and will catch 
hold of the boughs with it's tail. These ani- 
mals diifer in size : that described by Linnsus 
was only the size of our Squirrel ; while that 
which was killed by Sir Edvvard Michelbourne, 
in one of the Indian Isles, is said to have beeii 
larger than a Hare." 
Euffon says, that the East India Taguan, of 
Great Flying Squirrel, sent from Machian tQ 
the Priivce of Conde, and preserved in the Ca- ! 
billet at Chantiily, was twenty-three inches) 
jun^;, from tlie point of the nose to the extre-j 
mity 
