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CARNIVORA. 



URSID^E. 



Genus, Meles. (Cuv.) 



BADGER. 



Generic Character. Second incisive tooth in the lower jaw placed behind 

 the others ; grinders J, in an uninterrupted series ; feet plantigrade ; a glan- 

 dular pouch underneath the tail, having a transverse orifice. 



THE BADGER. 



BROCK. GREY. BAWSENED-PATE. 



Meles taxus. 



Ursus taxus, SCHREIB. Saiig. III. t. 142. 

 Ursus meles, LINN.EUS, Syst. Nat. XII. p. 70. 

 Meles vulgaris, DESMAR. Mammal, p. 173, sp. 266. 



,, taxus, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 9. JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 10. 

 Le Blaireau, BUPFON, Hist. Nat. VII. p. 104, t. vii. 

 The Badger, PENN. Brit. Zool. I. p. 85, t. viii. 



SINCE the extirpation of the Bear, Ursus arctos, of the 

 existence of which mention is made in Scottish history as 



