Note 50 — PETER KALM’s TRAVELS. (continued 5)
Johann Reinhold Forster translation
As Catesby and Edwards have both represented the flying Squirrel in a sitting attitude, I have given here, plate I. a figure of one with the expanded membrane, and joined to it on the same plate, a more accurate figure of the ground Squirrel.
It is not yet made out with certainty, whether the American flying squirrel, and that found in Finland and in the north of Europe and Asia, be the same animal. The American kind has a flat pennated tail, but the European kind a round one, which affords a very distinguishing character. F. ↑