Class I. 



BADGER. 



85 



Six cutting teeth, two canine, in each jaw. 



Five toes before ; five behind : very long ftraic 



claws on the forefeet. 

 A tranfverfe orifice between the tail^ and the anus. 



IX. BAD- 

 GER. 



Badger, Brock, Gray, Pate, 

 Taxus five Meles. Raii Jyn, 

 quad. 185. 



Meyer* s an. i. Tab. 31. 



Sib. Scot. II. 



Meles pilis ex fordide albo et 

 nigro variegatis veftita, ca- 

 pite teniis alternatim albis 

 et nigris variegato. BriJJon 

 quad. 183. 



I>e Buffofi, Tom. viii. Tab. 7. 

 p. 104. 



Gefner quad. 686. 



Urfus meles. Urfus cauda 

 concolore, corpora fupra ci- 

 nereo, fubtus nigro, fafcia 

 longitudinali per oculos au- 

 refque nigra. Lin. fifi. 70. 



Coati cauda brevi. Klein quad. 



73- 

 Meles unguibus anticis lon- 



giffimis. Faun. Suec. 20. 

 Br. ZooU 30. Syn quxd. No, 



142. 



13. Common. 



THOUGH the badger is a bead of great 

 ftrength, and is furnilhed with ftrong teeth, 

 as if formed for rapine, yet it is found to be 

 an animal perfedly inoftenfive : roots, fruits, grafs, 

 infeds, and frogs are its food : it is charged with 

 deftroying lambs and rabbets ; but, on enquiry, 

 there feems to be no other reafon to think it a bead 

 of prey, than from the analogy there is between 



G 3 its 



