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come next, and the internal one is the shortest. The sole 

 of the fore-feet is furnished with tubercles, very thick, and 

 covered with a soft skin, one at the exremity of each toe. 

 Three others, disposed in the form of a trefoil, are found 

 on the middle of the sole, which is terminated behind, on 

 the fore-feet, by a single tubercle, and on the hinder, by 

 two contiguous ones. The tail is short, and rudimentary. 



The organs of sense shew very little development. The 

 eye is small, with a round pupil. The third lid is large 

 enough to receive the cornea altogether. The ear has an 

 external conch of small extent, and very simple within. 

 The antitragus, alone, is remarkable for a thick tubercle, 

 in the form of a semi-circle, which occupies its whole ex- 

 tent, transversely. The nostrils are surrounded by a very 

 developed muzzle, composed of strong glands. They con- 

 sist of two sinuses, large in front of the mouth, narrow on 

 its sides, and the orifice of the olfactory conduit is found 

 in their anterior part. The tongue is oblong, large, and 

 altogether covered with very small papilla?, pointed, and 

 even a little horned, but soft enough to make it appear 

 smooth. 



The fur is copious, and the haris very long on the body ; 

 they are much less so on the head, the limbs, and the lower 

 parts. They are both silky and woolly, yet they differ 

 little from each other ; the first are the longest, and the 

 hardest. The mustachios are very small. 



Immediately under the tail is a large transversal aper- 

 ture, which conducts into a naked cavity terminating in a 

 cul-de-sac. The sides of this cavity, though no glandular 

 apparatus is visible, are yet covered with an unctuous mat- 

 ter. Underneath is a second and smaller pouch, in the 

 midst of which the anus opens, and on each side of the 

 anus is a tolerably large pore from whLch an unctuous mat- 

 ter escapes of a yellowish colour, and a most intolerable 

 odour. The Badger has six teats. 



