*79 
S Q^U I R R E L. 
With two cutting teeth in each jaw. 
Four toes before, five behind. 
Long tail, cloathed with long hair. 
Sclurus, Gefner quad. 845.. Rail fyff 86. Ikorn, Grafkin. Faun, 
fan. quad. 214. ^ juec. No. 37. 
Wiewiorka Rzaczinjli Polon. 22$ l Sciuras rufus quandoque grifeo 
Eichhorn .Klein quad. admixto. Rriffon quad. 104. 
Sciu-rus vulgaris. Sc. auricidis L’Ecureuil de Buffon, vii. 258. 
apice barbatis, palmis tetradac- tab. xxxii. Rr. Zool. I. 93. 
tylis, plantis pcu'tada&ylis. Lin . 
Sq. with ears terminated with long tufts of hair: 
large lively black eyes : head, body, legs and tail, 
of a bright reddifh brown : breaft and belly white : 
hair on each fide the tail lies hat. In Sueden and 
Lapland changes in winter, into grey. In Rnffia j-, 
is fometimes found black. In many parts of Eng¬ 
land \$ a beautiful! variety with milk-white tails. 
Inhabits Europe and Ntirth America , the northern 
and the temperate parts of Aft a 3 and a variety is. 
even tound as far fouth as the Ifle of Ceylon: is a 
neat, lively, active animal: lives always in woods: 
in the fpring, the female is feen purfued from tree 
to tree by the males, feigning an efcape from their 
embraces : makes its neft of mofs and dried leaves, 
between the fork of two brandies : brings three or. 
four young at a time : has two holes to its neft: 
Hops up that on the fide the wind blows, as Pliny J 
* Faun. fuse, and Scheffer LapL 13$. 
f Rzaczinjki Polon . 224. 
X Lib . viiL c. 38. 
T 4 j«% 
XXX 
squirrel; 
3o6.CoM MON, 
