ECHIDNA HYSTRIX. 303 



given, and accordingly he founded upon it a genufl 

 which he calls Amblotis* 



THE ECHIDNA. 



Echidna Hystrix. 

 PLATE XXXIII. 



Echidna Hystrix of Authors. 



JMyrmecophaga aculeata, Shaw. Naturalist's Miscellany, Vol. 



iii., p. 109. General Zoology, Vol. i. part 1, p. 175 ; the 



Porcupine Anteater of the first of these works, and Aculeated 



Anteater of the second. 

 Ornithorhynchus Hystrix, Home. Anat. of the O. Hystrix in 



Phil. Trans. 1 802, p. 348. 

 Tachyglossus aculeatus, Illiger. 



This curious animal is ahout the size of the Hedge- 

 hog, which it also resembles in being covered with 

 spines ; the spines, however, are much stouter than 

 in that animal, and the long snout of the Echidna 

 would prevent it being mistaken even by a superficial 

 observer for the animal with which I have compared it. 



The head of the Echidna is elongated, and its eyes 

 are small; immediately in front of the eye, the muzzle, 

 which is rather depressed, is somewhat suddenly con- 

 tracted, thence it gradually diminishes in width to 

 the tip. In an adult specimen before me the width 



* Mr. J. Gray, during the time that the British Association 

 held its meeting at Newcastle, referred to this animal, and 

 pointed out this error to the Members of the Natural History 



Section See Report, Vol. vii., p. Ill, of the " Transact! or s 



of the Sections." 



