QUADRUPEDS. 



ORDER 

 G L I R E S. 



HYSTRIX. PORCUPINE. 



Generic Character. 



Denies Primores duo, oblique 

 scissi. 



Molares octo. 



Digit i pedutn 4 5. 



Corpus spinis pilisque tetum. 



Front-teeth two, both in the 

 upper and under jaw, ob- 

 liquely cut. 



Grinders eight. 



Body covered with spines in- 

 termixed with hairs. 



Four toes on the fore-feet; 

 five on the hind. 



COMMON PORCUPINE. 



Hystrix Cristata. H. palm'is tetradactylis, plant is pentadactylit, 

 capite cristato, cauda abbmiata. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 76. 



Long-spined Porcupine, with tetradactylous fore-feet, pentadac- 

 tylous hind-feet, crested head, and short tail. 



Hystrix. Gesn. Quadr. p. 563 . Aldr. Jig. p. 47 r. Jig. p. 474. 

 Jonst. Quadr. p. 163. t. 68. Raj. Quadr. 206. 



Le Pore-Epic. Buff. 12. p. 402. pi. 51, 52. 



Crefted Porcupine. Pennant Quadr. 2. p. 122. 



E have before observed, that in an arrange- 



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ment of quadrupeds, from their obvious external 

 characters alone, without reference to the form 

 v. IT. p. i. 1 



