'Sciurus Petaurista' [Red giant flying squirrel] mb-height 3132 View of Norwich Cathedral

View of Norwich Cathedral

Boscastle is a village and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall

1 [Centuria I]

Southwell wears a brown shoulder length wig

drawn alongside the magnified illustration

'Sciurus Petaurista' [Red giant flying squirrel] mb-height 3132 View of Norwich CathedralZoological study of the Red giant flying squirrel Petaurista petaurista. Two animals are shown clinging to a tree stump: one a rear full body study, the other showing the Asian mammal's head with its mouth open, exposing the teeth. A landscape is shown behind. Plate 6 from the book Miscellanea zoologica, quibus novae imprimis atque obscurae animalium species describuntur et observationibus iconibusque illustrantur by P S Pallas (The Hague, 1766). An