192 MURTD.E. CERCOLABES. 



Lumbar vertebrae 4 



Sacral 4 



Caudal 15 or 1G 



a. Skeleton. From Mr. Bartlett's Collection. 



b. Skeleton. Since discovered to be a hybrid between the Common 



Porcupine and the Java species. Bred at the Surrey Gardens. 

 From Mr. Bartlett's Collection. 

 A. flemingii, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1847. 



<*. Skeleton. Hybrid, from the same pair of Porcupines as (6). Bred 

 at the Surrey Gardens. From Mr. Bartlett's Collection. 



d. Skeleton. 



*e. Skull, and bones of body. From the Zoological Society's Col- 

 lection. 



CERCOLABES. 



Teeth :— Incisors g ; Molars g ; = 20. 



The Coendoo. Cercolabes prehensilis. 



Waterhouse, Nat. Hist. Mamm. ii. p. 416. pi. 18. fig. 2 (skull), copied 



from Brandt's figure. 

 Hystrix prehensilis, Pander and D' Alton, Vergl. Osteol. no. 6. pi. 6 

 (skeleton). — Blainv., Osteog. G. Hystrix, pi. 3 (skeleton and skulls). 



Cervical vertebrae 7 



Dorsal 17 



Lumbar 5 



Sacral 3 



Caudal 32 



a. Skeleton. Brazils. 

 *b. Skull : young. 



c. Skull. Purchased of Mr. Cross. 



d. Skeleton. From the Zoological Society's Collection. 



e. Skull. 



The Bolivian Cercolabes. Cercolabes boliviensis. 



*«. Skull. Bolivia. From Mr. Bridges' Collection. — The specimen 

 described by Dr. Gray. 



Cercolabes spinosus. 

 F. Cuv., Mem. du Mus. ix. p. 433. pi. 20. figs. 5, G (skull), fig. 7 (feet). 



Cercolabes pallidus. 



Waterhouse, Nat. Hist. Mamm. ii. p. 434. pi. 18. fig. 3 a (upper molars). 



The Tricoloured Tree Porcupine. Cercolabes villosus. 



Brandt, Mamm. Exot, p. 71. pi. 10. figs. 5-7 (skull), 1836.— Water- 

 house, Nat. Hist. Mamm. ii. p. 427. pi. 18. fig. 3 (skull). 



a. Skull. Brazils. From M. Parzudaki's Collection. 



