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14. Greater flying Squirrel. 
Severn River. 
It is equal in fize, if not bigger than the com- 
mon fquirrel ; has pretty long hairs, dufky 
at bottom, tawny brown at the very tips 
only; and difpofed fo that the back appears 
wholly of that reddifh brown colour ; the 
tail is very bulhy, fomewhat comprefled, but 
not pinnated (i. e. with the hairs difpofed 
horizontally on each fide of it, as for example 
in the common fquirrel), it is brownifh on the 
upperfide with a dulky tip, of a yellowifh 
white below ; the whole underfide of the ani- 
mal has the fame yellowifh white colour. The 
membrane reaches from the forefeet to the 
hindfeet, without extending to the ears : it is 
found in James’s Bay, about 51 0 north lati- 
tude. 
This is perhaps Linneus’s Sciurus solans , and 
the fame with the flying fquirrel of the Ardlick 
parts of Europe. Mr. Brifl'on feems to have 
confounded this, and the little Virginian fquir- 
rel together, and his quotations are quite con- 
fufed. Linneus’s Mus vclans certaabiv is a 
variety of the little flying fquirrel, of the milder 
parts of North America, New York, Penn- 
sylvania, Virginia, which is vaftly different 
from this in lize and colour. 
‘i 5. A small Animal, called a Field Moufe. 
Churchill River. 
A fpecimen in very bad prefervation, wanting 
legs, tail, &c which makes it impollible to de- 
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