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BADGER. 



Class I. 



GENUS IX. BADGER. 



Toes, five before; five behind. 

 Claws on the fore feet very long, strait. 

 Orifice a transverse between the tail and the 

 anus. 



13. Common. Badger, Brock, Gray Pate, Gesn. quad. 686. 



Taxus sive Meles. Rail syn. Ursus iSIeles. Ursus cauda 



quad. 185. 



Meyer s an. i. Tah. 31. 



Sih. Scot. 11. 



Meles pills ex sordide albo et 

 nigro variegatis vestita, ca- 

 pite toeniis alternatim albis 

 et nigris variegato. Brisson 

 quad. 183. 



De Biiffon, Tom. vili. Tah. J. 

 p. 104. 



concolore, corpore supra ci- 

 nereo, subtus nigro, fascia 

 longitudinali peroculosau- 

 resque nigra. Gm. Lin. 102. 



Coati Cauda brevi. Klein quad. 

 73. 



Meles unguibus anticis Ion- 

 gissimis. Faun. Suec. 20. 



Br. Zool. 30. Hist. quad. No. 

 215. ii. p. 14. Arct. Zool. 

 i. p. 81. 



Brit. Pryf Llwyd, Pryf pen- Germ. Tachs 



frith Dut. Varkens Das 



Fren. Le Taisson, Le Blalreau Su:ed. Graf Suin 



leal. Tasso Dan. Grevlin, Brok. 

 Span. Texon 

 Port. Texugo 



ger is a beast of great 



Though the bad 



strength, and is furnished with strong teeth, 

 as if formed for rapine, yet it is found to be 

 perfectly inoffensive: roots, fruits, grass, in- 



