54 -MAMMALIA. 



disposition of these parts among the Quadrumana and the Carnaria : these 

 two systems of dental arrangement are found in genera, otherwise very 

 similar in the covering, shape of the limbs, and mode of life. 



EHINACKUS, Linncems. 



The body of the Hedgehog is covered with spines instead of hairs. The 

 skin of the back is furnished with such muscles, as, by inclining the head and 

 feet towards the abdomen, enable the animal to shut himself up in it, as in a 

 purse, presenting his spines on all sides to the enemy. The tail is very short, 

 and there are five toes to each foot. There are six incisors in each jaw, the 

 middle ones being the longest, and on each side three false molars, three 

 bristled with points, and a small one studded with tubercles*. 



E. Europeans, L. ; Buff. (The Common Ht dgehog.) Ears short; common 

 in the woods and hedges; passes the winter in its burrow. To insects, which 

 constitute its ordinary diet, it adds fruit, by which at a certain age its teeth 

 become worn. The skin was formerly used to dress hemp. 



CBNTENES, Illiger. 



The body of the Tenric is covered with spines like the Hedgehog. It does 

 not however possess the faculty of rolling itself so completely into a bah 1 : there 

 is no tail; the muzzle is very pointed, and the teeth are very different. 

 There are four or six incisors, and two great canini in 

 each jaw. Behind the canini are one or two small 

 teeth, and four triangular and bristled molars. Three 

 species are found in Madagascar, the first of which has been naturalised 

 in the Isle of France. It is a nocturnal animal, which passes three months of 

 the year in a state of lethargy, although inhabiting the torrid zone. Brugicre 

 even assures us that it is during the greatest heats that they grow torpid. 



Erinaceus ecaudatus, L. (The Tenric.) Covered with stiff spines ; only 

 four notched incisors below. It is the largest of the three, and exceeds the 

 Hedgehog in size. 



CLADOBATES, Fr. Cuvier. 



This is a new genus from the Indian Archipelago. The teeth have much 

 affinity with those of the hedgehog ; their middle upper incisors, however, are 

 proportionately shorter, and the four lower ones elongated; there is also no 

 tubercular one behind. The animal is covered with hair, has a long shaggy 

 tail, and, contrary to the habits of other Insectivora, climbs trees with the 

 agility of a squirrel ; the pointed muzzle, however, makes the animal easily 

 distinguishable even at a distance. 



Pallas has noted as an interesting fact, that the Hedgehog cats hundreds of Cantha. 

 rides without inconvenience, while a tingle one produces the most horrible agony in the Dog 

 and the Cat. 



