The Hiflory of ANIMALS. 
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S C I U R U S. 
T HE fore-teeth of the Sciurus are prominent, and there are no canine teeth i 
the legs are formed for climbing and for leaping, 
Sciurus fufco-fubrubens ventre albido. %t )t COttllttOtt 
The reddijh-brown Sciurus , with a white belly . 
This is a fmall-bodied animal, bat it is fo Well covered with fur, that it appears 
much larger than it truly is: the head is fmall, and of a figure approaching to oval, 
but pointed at the extremity ; the eyes are large and bright 5 the fore-teeth fharp and 
prominent: the tail is very long, and covered with a long and fine hair, in fuch man¬ 
ner as to equal the body in apparent thicknefs. 
The back and fides are of a brown colour, with an admixture of a tawny red $ 
the belly is perfectly white ; the colour, however, is not invariable. 
There are fquirrels of this fpecies in Poland that are black; and in Ruffia they are, in 
general, of a darker or lighter grey. All the writers on quadrupeds have described it 
under the name of Sciurus and Sciurus vulgaris. We have inftances of it’s becoming 
perfe&ly white. 
Sciurus grifeus cauda minore . 50 \Z 'MtttttlC&tl 
The grey Sciurus , with a fmaller tail gtfcp 
This is twice as large as the common fquirrel: the head is large, oval, and fharp at 
the extremity or fnout; the eyes are very large, bright, and prominent; the ears are 
fhort; the mouth is fmall, and the teeth fharp and prominent: the body is more 
corpulent than in the common fquirrel, and the tail, though large and bufhy, is not fo 
long, in proportion, as that of the common kind : the legs are very robufi:; the whole 
back and fides are of a dark iron grey, variegated with black in clouds, ftreaks, and 
blotches, and very beautiful: the belly is paler; the legs are pale toward the body, 
but the feet are black. 
This is frequent in the woods in North America, and throws itfelf with great force 
and rapidity from tree to tree. Ray calls it Sciurus Americanus cinereus major. 
Sciurus cauda maxima grifeo-nigrefcens . 53 ) t 
The blackijh Sciurus 5 with a very large tail . 
This is of the fize of the common fquirrel, but ftill flenderer in the body 5 it's 
weight is almoft nothing : the head is fmall, oval, but more fharp at the fnout than in 
any other fpecies: the eyes are black, large, and prominent; the mouth is fmall; the 
whole upper part of the body is of a grey colour, approaching to black, and down the 
ridge of the back there runs a fireak of abfolute black, formed of hairs much more 
Riff than thofe of any other part, and in fome degree refembling bridles: the belly 
is very pale, but is not abfolutely white : the legs are very flender, and of a dufky 
greyj the feet are blackifh, and the toes long: the tail is very long, and is very thick, 
covered with a long and fine down, variegated with white and black. 
This fpecies is peculiar to the Eaft, and is no where fo frequent as in the forefts of 
the ifland of Ceylon. Ray calls it Sciurus Zeylanicus pilis in dorfo nigricantibus^ 
Sciurus 
