34 FEl. THE MOLE TRIBE. 



Occasionally found in most of the wild and uninclosed parts of 

 Great Britain and Ireland. 



Ursus cauda concolore, corpore supra cinereo, subtus 

 ni%ro, fascia longitudinal per oculos auresque nigrd.~ 

 Ursus meles. Linn. Syst. Nat. Grael. i. p. 102. Erxle- 

 ben, Syst. regn. animal, gen. 17, sp. 3, p. 161. 



Ursus meles. Common Badger. Turton, i. p. 63. 

 Kerr, p. 186. 



Coati caudd brevi. Taxus, meles. Coatigriseus. Klein, 

 quad, (lesp, p. 73. 



Meles. Brisson, regn* animal, p. 253. Gesner. p. 86. 



Taxus $ive Meles Rail. Syn. quadr. p. 185. 

 Ruysch, i. pa. 1, p. 101. 



LeBlaireu. Buff. Sonn. xxiv. p. 334, tab. 14, 15. 



Le Blaireu proprement dit. Cuv. Tab. Element, p. 

 112. 



Common Badger. Penn. Quadr. ii. p. 14. Penn. 

 Brit. Zoo\. i. p. 85, tab. 8. 



Badger. Shaw's Gen. Zoo!, i. p. 467, tab. 106. 

 Daniel's Rural Sports, 8vo. edit. i. p. 508, tab. opp. p. 

 514. Smeilie's Buffon, iv. p. 226, tab. 67. Bing. Anim. 

 Biog. 3d edit. i. p. 388. 



THE MOLE TRIBE. Front-teeth unequal, six in the 

 upper, and eight in the lower jaw : canine-teeth solitary, 

 the upper ones largest: grinders seven above, six below. 

 TALPA. Linn. 



No external ears. Snout long, and slender towards the 

 end. Fore-feet much broader than the hind ones, their 

 under sides turned outwards. Toes with broad and short 

 nails. Tail very short. W.B. 



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