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PETAUEUS {B elide us) SCIUEEUS. 
Squirrel Elying-Phalaffgcr. 
Didelphis sciurea. Shaw, Zoology of New Holland, No. 4, PI. 11, p. 29. 
1794. General Zoology, vol. i. Pt. 2, p. 498. 1800. 
Petaurus sciureus. Desmarest, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., tom. xxv. 
p. -103. 1818. 
Petaurista sciurea. Desmarest, Mammalogie, Pt. 1, p. 270. 1820. 
Belideus sciureus. Gould, Mammals of Australia, Pt. 1, PI. 4. 
Norfolk Island Flying-Squirrel. Pennant, History of Quadrupeds.— 
Phillip’s Yoy. to Botany Bay, p. 151, 
PI. 17. 
Sugar SquitTel of the colonists of New South Wales. 
Ear moderately long; tail very bushy, especially at the base, 
where it is as broad as the body: fur extremely soft; general 
colour delicate ashy grey: a longitudinal black band com¬ 
mences near the tip of the nose, and terminates before reach- 
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