Class I. 



URCHIN. 



133 



Five toes on each foot. 



Body covered with fhort ftrong fpines. 



xviir. 



tJRCHlxH, 



Echinus fc. ennaceus terreftris. 



Rait Jyn, quad. 2^1. 

 Meyer'' s an. 1. rab. 95, 96. 

 Sib. Scot, 1 1. 

 Erinaceus parvus noftras. Seb. 



Mas. i. p. 78. Tab. 49. f. 

 I, 2. 

 Erinaceus auriculis eredlis. 



Brijjon quad, i 28. 

 De BuffoHy Tom. viii. 28. 

 5^«^. 6. 



Echinus terreftris. Gefner 



quad. 368. 

 Erinaceus europasus. Lin. 



Erinaceus fpinofus auricula- 

 tus. Faun. Suec. 22. 



Acanthion vulgaris noftras. 

 Klein quad, 66. 



Br. Zool. 51. Syn. quad. No. 

 247. 



35 



. Common^ 



Germ. 

 Dut. 



Snved, 

 Dan. 



Igel 



Eegel-varken 

 Igelhot 

 Pin-fuin, Pin-foe 



THE ufual length of this animal, exclufive of 

 the tail, is ten inches : the tail is little more 

 than an inch long •, but fo concealed by the fpines, 

 as fcarce to be vifible. The form of thenofe is like 

 that of the hog •, the upper mandible being much 

 longer than the lower, and the end fiat : the nof- 

 trils are narrow, terminated on each fide by a 

 thin loofe flap : the color of the nofe is dufky ^ it is 

 covered by a few fcattered hairs : the upper part 

 of the head, the fides, and the rump, are clothed with 

 ftrong (liff hairs, approaching the nature of brif- 



tles, of a yellowilh and cinereous hue. 



The 



Des cr. 



