SAILING SQUIRREL. 
on both sides with hair ; that their bite is so 
strong, that they easily escape from a wooden 
cage in a single night ; that, by some people^ 
they are called Flyings Monkeys ; that they are 
also found in the Island of Ternate, where they 
were first mistaken for Squirrels, only that the 
head was thinner and larger, there was grey 
hair above the muzzle, and a black line run- 
ning the whole length of the back; that the 
extensible skin, which adheres to their bodies, 
is garnished with hair as white on the under 
side as that of the belly ; and that, when they 
leap from tree to tree, they extend their mem- 
branes, and have then the appearance of being 
Hat. I have seen two females ; .the one in the 
Leyden Cabinet, the other in that of M. He'e- 
teren at the Hague. The colour of the body 
was a light chesnut, deeper on the back ; and 
the end of the tail was blackish. The diffe^ 
rence of the sex is distinguishable by six small 
paps, placed at equal distances, in two rows, 
from the breast to the belly. I have also seen 
two males in the Prince of Orange's Cabinet. 
The length' of the body, in Rhenish measure, 
was one foot five inches, and that of the tail 
one foot eight. The head is more pointed than 
that 
