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by other incisors and canine teeth, all shorter than 

 the molar. This kind of dentition, of which the Tar- 

 siers, among the quadrumana, have already furnished 

 us with an example, approximates these animals in 

 some degree to the rodentia. 



The Hedgehogs (Erinaceus, Lvn.) 



Have the body covered with prickles instead of 

 hairs. The skin of their back, in bending the head 

 and paws towards the belly, can close itself as if in 

 a purse or bag, and present its prickly points on all 

 sides to the adversary. The tail is very short, and 

 all the feet have five toes. The two middle superior 

 incisives are separated and cylindrical. 



The common Hedgehog (Erinaceus Europccus) Buff. 

 VIII. vi. 



With short ears ; sufficiently common in the 

 woods and hedges; passes the winter in its 

 burrow, and sallies forth from it in the spring, 

 with the vesiculae seminales in a state of the 

 most incredible amplitude and complication. 

 To the insects which form its ordinary regimen 

 it adds the fruits which in time wear off the 

 points of its teeth. Its?- skin was formerly 

 made use of to hatchel hemp. 



The Long-eared Hedgehog (Erinaceus Auritus.) Schreb 

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Smaller than the common hedgehog, with ears as 



