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The Ant'Bear, the Porcupine, the Wild Boar, 

 and smaller Mammals 



T!IFJ\K are strange dwellers on the velt, which the 

 hunter is not likely to come across unless he is 

 exceptionally lucky, or unless he j^oes to threat trnible in 

 ferreting them out of their burrows. Amonj^ these are the 

 ant-hear ((~>rvc/crof>/is iccrt/icri} and the ] lorcupine 



( )ne of the greatest authorities iijton the African fauna, 

 Mr. Jackson, though constantly on the look-out tor porcu- 

 pines during his ten years residence in Last Africa, never 

 once came upon one out in the open. I he porcupine is 

 nocturnal in its habits, and spends the da\ in Us burrow. 

 I have never seen it at lar^e. though 1 lia\c picked up 

 hundreds of dropped <|mlls. .\ati\es ha\-e brought me 

 specimens ot the animal, which they have Drubbed out of 

 their burrows. 



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