I saw but two flying squirrels and know not to which species of Petaurista they are to be referred.
OTHER ANIMALS.
Both mice and rats are common, the former precisely resembling in appearance the English fieldmouse.

The rats on one occasion ate up a live pet parakeet, leaving the bones gnawed and strewed about; and on another, when I had shot a crane (Ardea scolopacea) intending it for breakfast, they in the night devoured nearly the whole of it.
CHECKS ON INCREASE OF ANIMALS.
The multiplication of kangaroos, opossums, rats, etc.

may be checked by various causes; but man, I imagine, is the most deadly enemy they have to contend with.

The numerous remains of these animals that I have seen about the native fires attest the number destroyed.

In all those caves in which I found native paintings were representations either of kangaroo hunts, or of men bringing down these animals dead on their shoulders; and many a hollow tree bore witness of its having been smoked in order to drive forth to certain death the trembling opossum or bandicoot rat which had taken refuge in it.
INFLUENCE OF MAN ON THEIR HABITS.
A convincing proof of the dread in which man is held by the various kinds of kangaroos is given by their extreme shyness.