Show PLYING WITHOUT WIER Allf wals mat lit rue d in movilla breely Tiro ili rousSi lu a the o air birds all and insects nrc arc not the only that fly a veteran taxidermist said 11 herc pre i a collection im making that th it hutt vi nil fill the ani animals nials known thai that moc inove through the air fir without wings not many wany to be sure but interesting ting enough when you come to think abo about ut it now if any ono one should tell you that hed hed seen and shot a monkey sailing through tho the air one lit hundred indred feet from tho tile ground think perhaps ho lie was overloading you you with facts but heres tho vory C a regular m flying monkey mo likey he ile aint illuce michot ot it now on account of being a little too set up ill with a cough 01 of apology for the professional joke 11 alts ta namo name is the colugo or flying lemur they arc are found in the islands of bf tho the indian archipelago you sec see the limbs arc ire connected ly by this wide membrane that look looka exactly like a great hair hairy cloak that if the animal folded its arms arins would completely cover it up lip it is a it night animal like tue tile bat and it lives V CIS on very much the same kind offord of food and spends its time in ill the trees IN hen lien it is a limb tho the meni membrane bratic hangs bangs r closely to the tile body and you never would suspect it of oi hying flying but let anything bistu disturb rb it and its goodbye good bye legs cp it rushes to the top odthe of the arec tree out on oil tho the end of a branch a and dash dashes Cs oft off into theair alic air the four legs arc are stretched out at full length pud end the skin shin between them belics bellies out like a parachute and it moves aay away floating down and swinging from side to side and after passing perhaps two or three hundred feet downward sweep sweeps up twenty five or thirty fastens to a limb and in I m time than you can tell it is at the top of the tree and has flung itself of fagain it travels so fast in this this way that a man told me that he keep ip with oue by running alongie along below and in ill one case where one jd jumped P ed from a tree nearly one hundred r d feet high it camo came down rubout fifty fiet with a rush and by the force at it swoop rose nearly the same distance CC again they carr carry y their young noun g generally enc rally t two vm through the air ditl with them hero arc are a number of squirrels that arc are wonderful flyers this one smoot smoothing him down the rich bron brou n skin odai of an resemy resembling da our striper strip variety is tho augur augar squirrel aquirre from froin tho the adouth auth pacific its legs arc are connected by a delicate delic ate membrane which is used in a very similar way to tho the flying ino monkey only it is much more ofa of a fly crand in this operation it uses its tail to steer with they travel it flocks and sir mr cennett bennett the great traveler often saw them thein sweeping over a river that v was as nearly 1200 hect li act wide and the elevation from froin which tacy started was not moro inore than th thirty arty fiet et here is another that looks like our common squirrel it is called tile ariel I and 11 ud a n good name it is as it spends inest of its time in the tile air air M mr Brode broderic rip tells this one of them wo we had one of those squirrels on board when w lien off the coast of new holland on oil ono one occasion I it readied reached the mast licad a and nd a as s ti the i C sailor who was dispatched to bring it down approached it made a i j spring f from I OM aloft to avoid liim him at this M moment in ment tile a heavy lurch which if tho tile original direction of the little creatures course had been continued must have plunged it into the eca all who IV witnessed the scene were in pain for its safety but it suddenly appeared to check itself and ind so to modify its career that it alighted safely on the deck chii shows that the membrane is not merely a P parachute arac bute as they can cli change anc their course here is isa a flying mouse from van dielens Di emens lani an l though it might be called a flying opossum sull as it hag has a pouch for its young in appearance it resembles an tin ordinary mouse being about six inches long including the tile tail the file hair ia arranged on cither either side odthe of the tail in t two rows exactly like feathers and ind undoubtedly brought into play as a rudder in in iia daring flight from tree to tree trec another flyer is the flying alir of new holland it atit is nearly I y three feet in ill ledith and a ponderous animal for such aerial flights but the largest and heaviest if I flyer e r is the I aguan abuan al also from new 1201 holland it looks like a gigantic squirrel with great floppy fla P py car and a long oil tail covered with bristling stiff hairs more th aai two ta inches in length it is is never seen upon the ground but it darts from tree to tree by the aid of the ivond wonderful erful membrane that it spreads to the breeze the criz eagerly erly sought after bv by the natives who show remarkable Mar kAle CU cunning nning i in in c capturing cap turin them A sl slight ight be scratch ate on th the e bark bark othe the tree or a chance hair that has adhered to the side of the hole in ill the tree into which the animal has entered tells its tal talo to wood I as clearly to the black ina roan n is a if ho he had bad see seen the tile animal ascend the tile tree and enter tho the domicile he ile is even able to gather from the appearance pe arance of the scratch and tile aspect act of tho the haira how liow many hours E have elapsed since the ruji animal nial left t traces rac IL behind hind it and can conjecture very accurately the intended prey pre is still within its residence should t atho alic indications be favorable the native proceeds to cut little holes in the tree in in which he thrusts his ills toes and and ascends tho the bu huge me trunk aas camuy liy as a bricklayer wa walks ike upa up a ladder having readied reached the aperture asif ho lie mhd broo sharply once or twice with the back of a hatchet so as to learn by the echo tile position loi tiou odthe of the anima ani malin arthe n the hollow lie ile then rapidly cuts a hole through the tree into the cavity seize tho the c concealed one caled by its tal tail II 11 jer jerks J k s i it t out before it haa has time to use its claws or teeth dashes it against the tree and drops it to the ground dead our common flying squirrel is one of the prettiest est of flyer flyers ive P seen one landin the ii water ater bvm cwm to a se booner lying in the stream and in a moment it lind liso reached the masthead and thrown itself off landing in in the brandies branches ofa of i tree feet away JV asun |