2. MELES. 



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xvii. t. 1. f. 1-4; but the fur is much shorter, and the hair not so 

 distinctly variegated as that of the European Badger, and very much 

 harsher. 



Fig. 19. 



Melee chinensis. a. Hinder upper grinders. 



The skuU (figs. 19, 20) is so like that of Meles lemurus from Thibet, 

 that I should have regarded them as the same, if there were not so 

 much difference in the length and flaccidness and coloration of the 

 fur, and the abundance of the under-fur. This may depend on the 

 climate. 



The shortness and peculiar colour of the fur are exactly alike in 



