Flying Squirrel 121 Mel. Lomistrie May 21 - 1875 My canadensis of a fine Pteropus vohella the first. I live saw alive He came out of an old downy woodpecker's hole and though I shook the tree most violently he still succeeded in clinging to it and the moment I stopped would whisk into the hole to come out again at the first renewal of the shaking. Finally he "took wing" and sailed in a graceful "feather" to the next tree a bir maple where I could not dislodge him, as he flattened himself against the bark and treated the shower of old branches & bark which I pelted at him with serene contempt. Finally I shot him but as I got within a yard or two of his agonized struggling among the leaves he found a hole among some roots and escaped much to my disgust. Saw 2 striata May 21 Clear and warm, Wind S.W. Off after breakfast driving up to the wilder. Shot 14 birds with my pistol in 17 shots the best were Mel. Lomistrie 2, decembri 3, D. caerulescens 3 & 10. My genibalis 1 & Genus norvocaensis 2 (8 & Q) etc. Birds were very numerous and I shot all my specimens in a little thicket near the road. The M. Lomistrie was perfectly silent and rather shy or perhaps more properly shaking suspicious. In one place I saw 7 & D. caerulescens and one Q. Saw a single M. canadensis. Watched a