cat-squirrel

The cat-squirrel, on the contrary, is slow and timid among the branches, and rarely mounts above the first fork, unless when forced higher by the near approach of its enemy.

The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Mayne Reid 1850

The species found in these woods was the large "cat-squirrel" (_Sciurus cinereus_), one of the noblest of its kind.

The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Mayne Reid 1850

Some species, as the cat-squirrel, fearing to take the dreadful leap (often nearly a hundred feet), rush down by the trunk.

The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Mayne Reid 1850

He crossed the street and walked a block to the square, and he saw the old brick courthouse set up high on the lawn and the luminous face of the clock on the steeple, and there were big shade trees in front and wood benches where the farmers came to sit on Saturdays, and around the four sides of the square there were hardware and drygoods stores and barber shops and feed suppliers, and everything was quiet now and the trees looked black on the lawn and he could hear a cat-squirrel chattering.

Half of Paradise James Lee Burke 1965