Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 87
body, which forms a very perfect parachute.When he leaps from his tree-top into the air,and spreads himself, his parachute and hisbroad, flat tail enable him to float down easilyand gracefully, in a slanting direction, until healights low down on the trunk of a tree perhapsfifty or even one hundred… … THE FLYING SQUIRREL IN FLIGHT AND AT REST. angle of about forty-five degrees, with a grace-ful sweep upward at the last, to enable him toalight easily. The Flying Squirrel is only a trifle over nineinches in length over all, of which the tail isabout four; and, even when it is fully flattenedout…
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