[app. native name in the Philippines.
Said by Pallas, Miscell. Zoolog., 1766, on the authority of Valentyn, Lettres édif. ex Epist. Jesuit., to be so called ‘a Philippinensium insularum incolis.’]
The Malayan Flying Squirrel, Pteromys petaurista. (Sometimes erroneously applied to other species.)
1807. Barr, trans. Buffon’s Nat. Hist., VII. 169. It was taken upon the Malabar coast, where they are very common, as well as in the Philippine Islands, and other parts of India, where they are called taguans, or great flying squirrels.
1826. Syd. Smith, in Edin. Rev., Feb., 309. The taguan knocks you down with a blow of his paw, if suddenly interrupted, but will run away, if you give him time to do so.
1901. Cornish, Living Anim. World, 149. The taguan, a large squirrel of India, Ceylon and the Malacca forests.
