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CARNIVORA. 



URSID^. 



VRSIDJE. 



T^ x^ 







Genus, Meles. (Cuv.) 



BADGER. 



Generic Character. — Second incisive tooth in the lower jaw placed behind 

 the others ; grinders §, in an uninterrupted series ; feet plantigrade ; a. glan- 

 dular pouch underneath the tail, having a transverse orifice. 



THE BADGER. 



BROCK. GREY. BAWSENED-PATE. 



Meles taxus. 



Vrsus taxus, Schreib. Saiig. III. t. 142. 

 Ursws meles, LiNN^ns, Syst. Nat. XII. p. 70. 

 Meles vulgaris, Deshak. Mammal, p. 173, sp. 266. 



„ taxus, Flem. Brit. An. p. 9. Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 10. 

 Le Blaireau, Bdffon, Hist. Nat. VII. p. 104, t. vii. 

 The Badger, Penk. Brit. Zool. I. p. 85, t. viii. 



Since the extirpation of the Bear, Ursus arctos, of the 

 existence of which mention is made in Scottish history as 



