ill twitter of the flying fox, or vampire bat, in the
bush around us."

1871. Gerard Krefft, `Mammals of Australia':

"The food on which the `Foxes' principally live when garden
fruit is not in season, consists of honey-bearing blossoms and
the small native figs abounding in the coast-range scrubs. . . .
These bats are found on the east coast only, but during very
dry seasons they occur as far west as the neighbourhood of
Melbourne."

1881. A.C. Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol. ii. p. 20:

"A little further on they came to a camp of flying foxes.
The huge trees on both sides of the river are actually black
with them. The great bats hang by their hooked wings to every
available branch and twig, squealing and quarrelling.
The smell is dreadful. The camp extends for a length of three
miles. There must be millions upon millions of them."

<hw>Flying-Mouse</hw>, <i>n.</i> See <i>Opossum-mouse</i>
and <i>Flying-Phalanger</i>.

<hw>Flying-Phalanger</hw>, <i>n.</i> included in the class
of <i>Phalanger</i> (q.v.). The "flying" Phalangers "have
developed large parachute-like expansions of skin from the
sides of the body, by means of which they are able to take long
flying leaps from bough to bough, and thus from tree to tree.
While the great majority of the members of the family are
purely vegetable feeders, . . . a few feed entirely or partly
on insects, while others have taken to a diet of flesh."
(R. Lydekker.)

They include the so-called <i>Flying-Squirrel</i>,
<i>Flying-Mouse</i>, etc. There are three genera--

Acrobates (q.v.), called the <i>Flying-Mouse</i>,
and <i>Opossum-Mouse</i> (q.v.).

<i>Petauroides</i> commonly called the <i>Taguan</i>, or
<i>Taguan Flying-Squirrel</i>.

<i>Petaurus</i> (q.v.), commonly called the <i>Flying
Squirrel</i>.

The species are--

Lesser F.-Ph.--
<i>Petaurus breviceps</i>.

Papuan Pigmy F.-Ph.--
<i>Acrobates pulchellus</i> (confined to Northern Dutch New
Guinea).

Pigmy F.-Ph.--
<i>A. pygmaeuss</i>.

Squirrel F.-Ph.--
<i>Petaurus sciureus</i>.

Taguan F.-Ph.--
<i>Petauroides volans</i>.

Yellow-bellied F.-Ph.--
<i>P. australis</i>.

<hw>Flying-Squirrel</hw>, <i>n.</i> popular name for a
Flying-Phalanger, <i>Petaurus sciureus</i>, Shaw, a marsupial
with a parachute-like fold of skin along the sides by which he
skims and floats through the air. The name is applied to
entirely different animals in Europe and America.

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