S Q^U IRREL, 
that killed by Sir Edward Michelbourne , in one of 
the Indian ifles was greater than a hare. Nieuhoff.\ 
p. 354, defcribes this fpecies under the name of the 
Flying Cat, and fays the back is black: he has given 
two very good figures of it * one in his frontifpiece, 
the other in the page he defcribes it in. 
Mus Ponticus vel Scythicus Gef- Ediv. 191 . Kalm. I. 321 tab. 2. 
ner quad . 743. du Pratz , II. 69. 
Affapanick Smith's Virginia , 27. Sciurus volans. Sc. hypochon- 
jojjelyn’s ‘voy. 86. de Laet , 88. driis prolixis volitans, cauda ro- 
Sciurus americanus volans Raii tundata. Lin- fyfi . 88. Faun.fuec. 
jyn. quad. 215. No. 38. 
Sciurus petaurifta volans, Klein Sciurus volans Brijfon quad. H 0 9 
f uad. c;a . . iii. No. iz, 13. 
. 'lying fquirrel Phil. Trans, ahridg. La Poulatouche, de Bnjjon, X. 
ix. 76. tab.v. La'wfons Carolina, 95. 
124. Catejby Carolina, II. 76, 77, 
Sq. with round naked ears : full black eyes : a la¬ 
teral membrane from fore to hind legs: tail with 
long hairs difpofed horizontally, longeft in the mid¬ 
dle : color above, a brownifh afh: beneath, white, 
tinged with yellow: much lefs than the common 
fquirrel. 
Inhabits Finland , Lapland , Poland , Rujfia , North 
America , and New Spain *: lives in hollow trees : 
fleeps in the day : during the night very lively: is 
gregarious, numbers being found in one tree : leaps 
from bough to bough fometimes at the diftance of 
ten yards : this adlion improperly called flyings for 
the animal cannot go in any other diredtion than 
forward; and even then cannot keep an even line. 
2 sa 
221. Flying; 
* Where it is called Quimichpatlan. Fernandez. Nov, Pli/p. S ; 
U 3 but 
