102 . BADGER. Class I. 



body clumsy and thick, which being covered 

 with long coarse hairs like bristles, makes it 

 appear still more aukward. The mouth is fur- 

 nished with six cutting teeth and two canine 

 teeth in each jaw ; the lower has five grinders 

 on each side, the upper four ; in all thirty four. 

 The nose, chin, lower sides of the cheeks, 

 and the middle of the forehead, are white : each 

 ear and eye is hiclosed in a pyramidal bed of 

 black, the base of which incloses the former; 

 the point extends beyond the eye to the nose : 

 the hairs on the body are of three colors ; the 

 bottoms of a dirty yellowish white, the middle 

 black, the ends ash-colored,, or grey, from 

 whence the proverb ; as grey as a badger. The 

 hairs which cover the tail are very long, and of 

 the same colors with those of the body ; the 

 throat and under parts of the body are black ; 

 the legs and feet, of the same color, are very 

 short, strong and thick ; each foot is divided 

 into five toes ; those on the fore feet are armed 

 with long claw^s, well adapted for digging; in 

 walking the badger treads on its heel, like the 

 bear, which brings the belly very near the 

 j^round. Immediately below the tail, between 

 that and the anus, is a narrow transverse ori- 

 fice, which opens in a kind of pouch, from 

 w hence exudes a white substance of a very fcetid 



