GREAT SQUIRREL, 
and the belly, are of a yellowish ferruginous 
colour, somewhat palest on the breast. The 
insides are of a pale yellow. There are four 
toes on the fore-feet, armed with crooked 
claws ; the fifth toe, or thumb, is very small, 
and has a minute rounded nail: the hind-feet 
have five toes, all of them vv'ith strong crooked 
claws. * 
According to Sonnerat, the Great Squirrel is 
easily tamed; and it is said to be known by 
the name of the Great V/ ood-Rat, on the Ma- 
labar coast, and in the adjacent country. 
Pennant, who calls it the Malabar Squirrel, 
seems to have mistaken Sonnerat's description. 
He says that, *' instead of a thumb, to the hind- 
foot, there is a short excrescence, with a flat 
nail ; all the other nails arestrongand crooked." 
This may be what is called an error of the 
press, substituting the hind-foot for the fore- 
foot; which agrees with the figure, and the 
fact. There is, however, some objection to 
his account of the colour of this animal's fur. 
The hair," he tells us, is long; of a red- 
dish 
