Southern flying squirrel or polatouch, Glaucomys volans 121, hairy long-eared bat or bearded bat, Nycteris hispida 120, Indian palm squirrel or palmist, Funambulus palmarum 123, alpine marmot or Swiss squirrel, Marmota marmota 122. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Jacques de Seve from James Smith Barr’s edition of Comte Buffon’s Natural History, A Theory of the Earth, General History of Man, Brute Creation, Vegetables, Minerals, T. Gillet, H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row, London, 1807.

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