88 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



The Prehensile-Tail Porcupine, {Hist. Prehensilis, L.) 

 Cuendu Marg. Hoitzslaquatzin, Herm* 



Has a long and prehensile tail, without spines 

 on the posterior half, and the spines short every- 

 where. Of the warm parts of America, where 

 it often suspends itself in trees. 



The Pencillated-Tail Porcupine, (Hist. Fasciculata, L.) 



With a long tail, terminated by a bundle of 

 spines flatted like strips of parchment ; the 

 spines of the body flatted like a sword-blade. 

 Of India, beyond the Gangesf . 



The Hairy Porcupine, (Hist. Dorsata, L.) Urson, Buff. 

 XII. iv. 



Has a moderate tail ; the spines in a great mea- 

 sure hidden under the fur. Of North America. 



The Hares, (Lepus, Lin.) 



Have also a very distinctive character in their upper 

 incisors, which are double, that is to say, each of 

 them has a smaller one behind it. Their molars, 



* This word implies, in the Mexican language, Spiny Opossum, 

 because it has the prehensile tail of the Sarigue. It is the Coendou 

 d, longue queue, Buff. Sup. VII. pi. lxxviii. 



t This is the Malacca Porcupine, Buff. Sup. VII. lxxvii. The 

 Hystrix macroura, Seb. I. pi. lii. and Schreb. clxx., is very much 

 like it, only the strips of the tail are represented as if formed of many 

 convexities, resembling so many grains of rice. 



