NATURAL HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA 



Europe, and the northern parts of Africa, and is 

 known as the European Porcupine. Another which 

 is known as the Brush-tailed Porcupine occurs in 

 West Africa ; and yet another species of the Brush- 

 tailed kind is found in Borneo. All the other species 

 or kinds, with the exception of the South African 

 Porcupine, inhabit Asia and adjacent Islands. 



Albino Porcupines are occasionally met with in 

 South "Africa. 



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