MAMMALIA. GLIRES, Sciurus, 
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above pale rufty mixed with black ; a white line from 
he Ihoulder down each fide ; tail black in the middle, 
Tides hoary ; ears fcarcely vidble. Cape Sq. 
Inhabits the northern mountains beyond the Cape of Good Hope; 
lives in burrows ; never climbs ; feeds on bulbous roots ; very 
vulgaris, but broader. 
f/ead flat; blunt; upper /ij!) cleft ; whifkers \oT\g\ belly 
dirty -white; hind-legs black, naked behind: above the eyes a 
white line : toes long, dUlinft, with a wart inftead of a thumb : 
long. 
B. With a flying membrane. 
Membrane moderate ; tail long, hairy. Flying Squirrel. 
■Inhabits the warm and temperate parts of North America : lives 
in troops among the woods : feeds on fruit and feeds which it 
colletfs in the evening and by night, lleeping by day in nefts 
formed among the leaves ; eafily tamed : 5 inches long. 
Jhad thickifh : eyes large, prominent, black : cars round, pel- 
lucid, nakedilh, grey-afh : zohijkers black, longer than the 
head : neck fliort ; hair loft, glofly, above cinereous with 
yellow tips, beneath white, in the middle lurrounded with 
cinereous: tail round, 4 inches long: membrane extended 
from the cars to all the legs and tail, on the fore -legs as far as 
the toes, on the hind-legs as far as the ankles : by means of 
this membrane it is able when Ilretcbed out to fufpend itfelf 
in the air and fwim. 
nus. 
Membrane including the cliin and ears ; body above reddifh, 
beneath yellowilli-afli. Virginian flying Sq. 
Inhabits Virginia. Ears large, oval : probably only a variety 
ofthelaft. ® ^ ^ ^ 
^^'^dfonius 
^°lans. 
Membrane not including the fore-legs ; bodp abov'e reddiflt- 
brown, beneath yellowilh-white ; tail fiat, hairy. 
inhabits North America about Hudfon’s Bay; iize of S. vul- 
garis : tips of the hair reddifli -brown. 
Membrane large, extending to the bafe of the fore-feet; 
T i! L at the end, hairy. Lapland flying Sq. 
inhabits the beech woods of Siberia, Lapland, and Poland; 
than S.volucella: feeds on the buds and young fhoots 
” folitary, wandering about by day, and even in 
the milder days of winter- : forms a neft of mofs in hollow trees : 
makes very large leaps by means of its wnde extended mem- 
itrne ; hiffes and is very wild and biting : brings 2 — 4 young. 
, Ears 
