SAILING SQUIRREL. 
mity of the body. These animals are found 
not only at Machian, but in the Philippine 
Islands ; and, probably, in many other parts 
of India. The one just mentioned was taken 
on the Malabar Coast. It's size is gigantic, 
when compared with the Flying Squirrels of 
Russia and America ; for the latter exceed not 
four and a half or five inches in length. Ne- 
vertheless, the Taguan, or Great Flying Squir- 
lel, resembles the other species in figure ; and 
in the prolongation of the skin, which is per- 
fe6lly similar: but, as the difference of size is 
so remarkable, it ought to be considered as a 
distinct species. 
* The following passage in the tenth volume 
of the Histoire Generale des Voyages, BufFoii 
tells us, induced him to call this animal the 
Taguan — In the Philippine Islands, there is 
a species of Flying Cat, of the size of a Hare, 
and of the colour of a Fox, which the natives 
call Taguan. It has wings like a Bat, but 
covered with hair, which it makes use of in 
leaping from one tree to another, at the dis- 
tance of thirty palms." 
According toBufFon, * 'the Taguan, or Great 
Flying 
