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ing-pig. The bones, during winter, are of 2 greenifh yellow, owing, 
as is f{uppofed, to their feeding during that feafon on the bark of the 
pine. It is obferved, that the bones of animals fometimes take a 
tinture from their diet; for example, thofe of beafts which feed on 
madder become red *. ‘They are alfo very fond of the bark of ju- 
niper. In fummer, they live on the wild fruits, and lap water, but 
will not go into it. In winter, take fhow by way of beverage. 
They neftle under the roots of great trees, and will alfo, in queft 
of fruits, afcend the boughs. When the Jndians difcover one ina 
tree, they cut it down, and kill the animal by a blow on the nofe. 
They defend themfelves with their quills. They fly from their 
purfuer ; but when they cannot efcape, will fidle towards their ‘ene- 
my, in order to pufh their quils into him: they are but weak inftru- 
ments of offence ; for a fmall ftroke with the hand againft the grain 
will bring them from the fkin, leaving them {ticking flightly in the 
fleth. The Indians ufe them to make holes in their nofes and ears, 
for the placing their nofe and ear-rings, and other finery +. They 
alfo trim the edges of their deer-fkin habits with fringes of dyed 
quils t, or make pretty linings with them for the bark boxes. 
They are very indolent animals, fleep much, and feldom travel a 
mile from their haunts |. 
M. de Buffon gives two figures of this beaft, under the name of Le 
Coendou and L’Urfon. ‘The firft he makes an inhabitant of Brafil: 
the laft, of Hudfon’s Bay: but the Coendou is a very different ani- 
mal§. The two figures he has exhibited are of our Porcupine in the 
winter and fummer drefs, the hair growing thinner as the warm 
feafon approaches§. His Coendou fhews it in the firft ftate, his Ur/on 
in the fecond **. 
They are faid to copulate in September, and to “bring only one 
young, the firft week in April; another, which it brings forth, being 
always dead +f. 
* Phil. Tranf. \xii. 374. + Drage’s voy. i. 177. ‘t The fame, 191. 
\| Mr. Graham, § See Syn, Quad, No q Edw, Hift. Birds, 1.52. 
** Hit, Nat. xii, tab. liv, lv. tt Mr. Grabam. 
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