GREAT SQUIRREL. 
As this fine animal is the largest of the ge~ 
Fius, which has yet been discovered, being in 
size equal to a large Cat, it seems sufficiently 
distinguished by the name of the Great Squir- 
rel. 
It is, intact, the Sciurus Maximus, of Gme- 
in's edition of the Systema Naturse; having 
3een first noticed by Sonnerat, since the death 
3f Linnasus. Sonnerat calls it, the Great 
Squirrel of the Coast of Malabar. He informs 
is, that it is a native of India, found in the 
Malabar country ; and, particularly, about tlie 
TQountains of Cardamore, which form part of 
[he Gauts. 
It is said to feed on fruits; and to be re- 
narkably fond of the milk of the Cocoa-Nut. 
These nuts, it has been observed, the animal 
•ierces, when ripe, " in order to obtain the 
Iquor as if it were any thing extraordinary 
or a Squirrel to bore a nut, or that it had no 
inclinatioa 
