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HIST. QUAD. Genus XXII. 
American Badger, Hi. Quad. p. 298. 8.—Smellie, iv. 226.—Lev. Mus. 
ADGER. With rounded ears: forehead, and middle of the 
cheeks, marked with a white line, extending to the beginning of 
the back, bounded on each fide by another of black: cheeks white: 
fpace round the ears dufky: body covered with long coarfe hair, ci- 
nereous and white. 
The legs were wanting in the fkin which I faw; but I fupply that 
defect from M. de Buffon’s defcription. They were dufky, and the 
toes furnifhed with claws, like the European kind. M. de Buffon ob- 
ferved only four toes on the hind feet ; but then he fufpected that 
one was torn off from the dried fkin he faw. 
Thefe animals are rather fcarce in America. They are found in 
the neighborhood of Hudfon’s Bay, and in Terra di Labrador ; and 
perhaps as low as Penfylvannia, where they are called Ground Hogs *. 
They do not differ fpecifically from the European kind; but are fome- 
times found white in America +. 
I do not difcover them in northern faz, nearer than the banks of 
the Yaik{. They are common in China, where they are frequently 
brought to the fhambles, being an efteemed food |. In northern 
Europe, they are found in Norway and Sweden §. 
Le Comte de Buffon imagines this animal to be the Carcajou of 
the Americans, and not the Wolveren. The matter is uncertain: 
* Kalm, i. 189. t Briffon Quad. 185. t Palla:. || Bedlts 
travels, ti. 83. § Pontoppidan, ii. 28. Faun. Suec. N° zo. q Suppl. 
tom. lil, 242. 
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BADGER. 
23. COMMON» 
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