CLASS I. MAMMALIA: ORDER 4. INSECTIVORA. 



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PT1LOCERQUE LOWII. 



jng tail, the first half naked, and the rest furnished with hairs like the barbs of a feather. It 

 iffers from the other tupaia in several points of its structure. 



THE HEDGEHOGS 



Genus HEDGEHOG : Erinaceus. — Although the hedsrehoa: is not found in America, we have so 

 ften read accounts of it that it is as familiar to us as one of our own animals. The body is short, 

 lick, and stout; the nose pointed, the tail short or entirely wanting, and the upper surface more 

 r less Bovered with short spines, which, when the animals roll themselves up into a ball, as they 



THE HEDGEHOG. 



ways do when alarmed or threatened, present an almost insuperable obstacle to any preda- 

 ous animal that might attack them. They are confined to the Eastern Hemisphere, where they 

 e principally found in the milder regions, though they are common in England. They are noc- 



