■2i& MAMMALIA. FER^. Urchin. 



43° 3« Malacca Urchin. — 3. Erinaceus malaccenfts. 3. 



Has pendulous ears. BrhT. quad. 183. 



Hyfhix brachiura, or Short-tailed Porcupine. Syft. nat. ed. x. i. p. 57. — Porcus aculeatus, f. 

 Hyftrix malaccenfis, Malacca Hedge-hog, or Pocupine. Seba, Muf. i. 8t. t. 51*. f. r. 



Inhabits Afia; — From this fpecies is procured the ftone, called Piedra -del pores, formerly held in 

 high eftimation *. Dr Gmelin feCms uncertain whether this animal fhould be confidered as a fpe- 

 cies of this or of the Porcupine genus ; but is difpofed, on the authority of Brifibn, to rank it in tMS 

 place. 



43 * 4. Siberian Urchin.- — 4. Erinaceus auritus. 4. 



Has long oval ears, and the noftrils are crefted at the edges. 



Erinaceus auritus, or Long-eared Urchin. Pallas, nov. com. Petrop. xiv. 573. t. 21. f. 4. S. G. 



Gmelin, D°. xiv. 5 19. t. 16. Schreber, iii. 582. t. clxiii Siberian Hedge-hog. Penn. hift. of quad. 



n. 356. 



Inhabits Eaftern Afiatic Ruflia, at the lower parts of the Volga and Ural rivers, and beyond lake 

 Baikal. — In the former of thefe districts this fpecies is coniiderably fmaller than the European Urchin; 

 but thofe beyond lake Baikal are often much larger : The upper jaw is long and flender, having four 

 rows of whifkers on the nofe ; the ears are very large, open, and naked, having foft whitifh hair oa 

 the infide, and being edged with brown; the tail is Ihorter than in the European fpecies, is of a taper 

 form, thick at the origin, annulated, almoft naked, and having only a few very foft hairs ; the upper 

 part of the body is covered with flender brown fpines, having a white ring on each near the bafe, and 

 another near the point ; the limbs are long and flender, and thefe and the belly are covered with 2 

 very fine, foft, white fur. The female has fometimes two litters in the year, and brings forth as far 

 as feven at a birth. This fpecies hybernates, during winter, in holes only a few inches below the fur- 

 face of the ground; it feeds on infects, even eating cantharides with impunity; it grows very fat, relis" 

 itfelf up when frightened, and has all the manners of the European fpecies. 



432 5. Tcndrac. — 5. Erinaceus fetofus. 5. 



Has fpines only on the head, neck, tail, and withers. Sm. Buff. vii. 86. pi. ccix. 



Erinaceus, having fhortifh ears ; the hind part of the head tolerably covered ; the tail very 

 fhort and covered with fpines. Syft. nat; ed. Gmel. i. 117. n. 5. Schreber, iii. 583. t. clxiv. — 

 Afiatic Hedge-hog. Penh. hift. of quad. n. 357. — Small JVIadagafcar Tendrac. Sonneret, It. ii. 146. 



t- 93- 



Inhabits India and Madagafcar.— This fpecies is confiderably fmaller than the European Urchin, 



being fcarcely fix inches long : The muzzle is very long, and is garnifhed with long whifkers ; it has 



' no fpines but on the head, neck, and withers, the reft of the body being covered with coarfe hair, like 



hogs briflles, of a whitifh colour ; the tail is very fhort, and is covered with fpines ; the fpines are 



white, with a ruft coloured ring in the middle; the legs are very fhort, and all the feet have five toes. 



This 



* Prsbably a kind of Bezoar. — T. 



