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S Q^U I R R E I 
Defer Ibed from T'hevenot who fays, it was 
bought at Moco from an Abijfinian , that it was very 
good-natured, and fportive like a fquirrel; would 
eat any thing except fiefn, and would crack the 
hardeil almonds, A variety of one of the aboye ? 
204. Grst, 
Gray (cymrel y^offelyns*v’oy» Cates- 
by Carolina, II. 74. Smith's <voy. 
27. Kahn's <voy. 95. 310. 
Fox fquirrel Laavfens Carolina, 
124. 
Sciurus cinereus virginianua ma¬ 
jor Rail Jyn . quad. 215 . 
Sciurus cinereus Lih.Jyfl. 86, 
Sciurus cinereus. Auriculis ex 
albo flavicantibus, Brijjm quad . 
107. 
Le Petit-Gris, de Buffon, X. 06. 
tab . xxv. 
Sq» with plain ears : hair of a dull grey color., mix¬ 
ed with black, and often tinged with dirty yellow : 1 
belly and infides of the legs white : tail long, bufhy, 
grey, and ftriped with black. Size of a half grown 
rabbet. 
Inhabits the woods of Northern Afia N Ame- 
tica , Peru ~f> and Chili J are yery numerous in 
N. America , do incredible damage to the plantations 
'* Voyages des hides orientates, v. 34. 
jy large kind cf grey fquirrel is found about the upper parts 
©f the river Obi, in the di it riel af Kuzneijk, and is called Keleiitlkaya 
betka, or the fquirrel of the *telcutian Tartars .* it is as large again as 
the common grey fquirrels of thofe parts,, and is preferred to them* 
on account of the filvery glofs of the ikin, Few arc Cent into RiiJtiM 
the greated: part being lent into China, and fell for 61 . or 7I. jh rangy 
per thoufand. Muller s Rujs* Samlung, III. 318, 519. 
( f Chine Miles are fmall beafts, like fquirrels, with wonderful! 
fmoothe and fort {kins, which they weare as a healthful! thing to 
comfort the fcomacke j they make coverings and rugs of the haire 
of the-fe Chine Miles, which arc found os the Sierre of Peru. Acoila 
in Purehass Pilg. 'III. 96A , ' 
+ O'Valle, in his hi [lory of Chile, fays, that the grey or afh-color’d 
fquirrels, of the vaily of Guafco, are valuable for the f*rs. Churchill's 
Cell Vbh III. 44. 
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