Mammalia. 61 



Order FER-^. LinncBus. 



Teetli of three sorls, incisors, canines, and chock tcetli, 

 1)1016 or less of a trenchant or carnivorous character ; four ex- 

 tremities proper for walking ; mammaj ahdominal or pectoral, 

 varying iu nuaiher ; stomach simple membraneous ; intestines 

 short. 



Fam. INSECTIVORA. Cuvier. 



Hinder feet always with five, and fore feet generally with 

 five toes ; soles of the feet bcarino- upon the ground ; cheek 

 teeth crowned with pointed tubercles ; incisors variable in 

 number : body covered with hair or prickles. 



Genus Erinaceus. LinncEus. 



Incisors % canines \\, molars I h — 34. Intermediate incisors, 

 above separate, long, cylindrical, and directed forwards ; canines 

 shorter than the molars. Body thick, covered above with prickles 

 and beneath with coarse hair ; muzzle pointed; ears medium sice 

 or very short, and rounded ; foes armed tvith strong nails ; tail 

 short or none ; mammce ten, six pectoral and four ventral, no 

 caecum ; clavicles complete : capable of rolling itself into a spherical 

 shape. 



Erinaceus auritus, GeofFroy. (Egyptian Hedgehog.) Above 

 covered with slender brown spines, each with two riogs, one 

 whitish near its base, and the other yellowish towards the tip ; 

 the legs and belly covered with soft white fur. Ears large, 

 oval, open, and naked, with softish white hair on the inner sides 

 and an edging of brown ; eyes bluish ; tail short, nearly 

 naked, and of a yellowish white colour ; legs longer and more 

 slender than those of the common hedgehog ; muzzle furnished 

 with four rows of whiskers ; nostrils denticulated like the crest 

 of a cock. A little smaller than the hedgehog of Europe. 



Inhabits Egypt. Geoffroy. — Also, Asiatic Russia. 



Erinaceus auritus, Pallas. Nov. Com. Petrop, torn xiv. 

 Herisson d' Egypte, Geoff. Egyp. Schreb. tab. 163. , Shaw, 

 Zool. vol. i. p. 2. p. 547. 



Erinaceus frontalis, Smith. (Cape Hedgehog.) Mu.^zle 

 short and black ; ears and tail short ; spines numerous and 

 about half an inch long, of a white colour, variegated with 

 black towards their bases ; forehead while, and from thence to 

 the origin of the fore legs extends a broad white baud, imme- 

 diately in front of the spinous covering of back ; chin and under 

 parts covered with deep black hair. Length about eight inches. 



Inhabits South Africa. 



Specimens of this species are occasionally found in the norlliein parts 

 of the distdct of Graatf-Reinet, but they are much more abundant in the 



