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remarkable charaders is its long, flexible fnout, fomewhat truncated at the 

 end. By the afliftance of this it turns up the earth in the manner of a hog, 

 in queft of earth-worms, roots, &c. Like the polecat, it alfo preys on the 

 fmaller quadrupeds, birds, &c. This fpecies is a native of South-America, 

 and feems to have been firfl: defcribed by Margrave, in his Hiftory of Bra- 

 zil. There is a particularity fometimes obfervable in the hind-feet of this 

 animal worthy of notice; viz. a kind of prolongation of the fkin at the 

 back of the heel into feveral horny procefles of about a quarter of an inch 

 in length; and which are more vifible in feme fpecimens than in others. 



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