Select Specimens / From Nature / of the / Birds Animals &c &c / of / New South Wales / Collected and Arranged / by / Thomas Skottowe Esqr. / The Drawings By T.R. Browne. N.S.W. / Newcastle / New South Wales / 1813 - Page 38

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FLYING SQUIRREL
 
This beautiful and Innocent little Animal lives in the large Gum Trees of the Country on the [branches?] of which it feeds. It has a Membranous Skin which extends from the fore to the hind feet and which makes it with the help of its long Bushy Tail to Fly or Leap from Tree to Tree, the before mentioned Skin acting as Wings: it is very easily [indecipherable] 

Native Name Bille