S Q^U IRREL. 
A. with membranes from fore leg to hind leg, 
220 .Sajlikg, Sciurus Sagitta. Sc. hypochon- iis volans. Sc. caltanei colons, in 
driis prolixis volitans, cauda parte corporis fuperiore, in infe- 
plano-pinnata lanceoiata. Lin. riore vero eximie flavefcentis; 
Jyft. 88 . _ cuteabanticiscruribusadpoftica 
Sciurus petaurifta Pallas Mifcel. membranae in modum extenfa 
Zool. § 4. tab. v i. volans, Brijfon quad. iiz. Mus* 
Sciurus maximus volans, feu fe- Roj. Society *. 
Sq. with a fmail rounded head: cloven upper lip : 
fmall blunt ears: two fmail warts at the outmoft 
corner of each eye, with hairs growing out of them : 
neck fhort: four toes on the fore feet; and inflead 
of a thumb, a (lender bone, two inches and a half 
long, lodged under the lateral membrane, ferving 
to ftretch it out: from thence to the hind legs ex¬ 
tends the membrane, which is broad, and a conti¬ 
nuation of the (kin of the fides and belly : five toes 
on the hind feet, and on all the toes fharp corn- 
preffed bent claws : tail covered with long hairs dif- 
pofed horizontally: color of the head, body and 
tail, a bright bay *, in fome parts inclining to orange : 
breaft and belly of a yellowilh white: length, from 
nofe to tail, eighteen inches •, tail fifteen. 
Inhabits Java f, and others of the Indian iflands : 
leaps from tree to tree as if it flew: will catch hold 
of the boughs J with the tail: differs in fize: that 
defcribed by Linnaeus was the fize of our fquirrel; 
* Where there is the ftin of one in fine prefervation. 
'J* Hamilton s way. II. 131. 
J Sir EdwardMichelbQHrnis voy* iff Purchases Pilgrim. L 134. 
that 
