212 MAMMALIA. GLIRES. Porcupine, 



IV. G L I R E S. 



Have no talks in either jaw; in both jaws there 

 are two lore-teeth ftanding clofe together, but 

 at a great ditlance from the grinders. 



XXIII. PO R G U PI N E.— 22. HTS TR IX. 21. 



The fore-teeth feem obliquely cut off at the ends: The two 

 jaws have eight grinders. The fore paws have each four, 

 and the hind feet five, toes. The body is covered with 

 long fpines, intermixed with hair. 



I. Crefted Porcupine. — 1. Hyftrix criftata. 1. 

 The top of the head is furniflied with a long reclined crefl of ftiff briltles. Briffi qua«L 



Hyftrix criftata, having four toes on each fore foot, and five on the hind feet, with a creft on 

 the head, and a fhort tail. S. G. Gmel. It. iii. 107. t. 2U Schrebef, iv. $99- *■ lxvii. Syft. nat. 

 ed. Gmel. i. p. 118. n. 1.— Hyftrix criftata orientalis, or Crefted oriental Porcupine. Seba, Muf. L 

 79. t. 50. f. 1. Gefn. quad. 563. Aldrov ; dig. 471. fig. p. 474. Jonft. quad. 163. t. 68. Raj. 

 quad. 206. — Acanthion criftatus. Klein, quad. 66.— Stachelfchwein. Ridinger, Id. thiere. t. 90. 

 Knorr, delic. ii. t. K. ii. f. 2. — Porcupine. Sm. Buff, vii. 69. pl._c.cv. cevi. — Crefted Porcupine. 

 Pcnn. hift. of quad. n. 253. 



Inhabits the fouthern parts of Afia, in Africa, Spain, and Italy ; is found in the Sand hills to the 

 fouth-weft of the Cafpian, in Southern Tartary, Ferfia, and Paleftine.— The Forcupihe dwells in large 

 burrows, or holes, of its own digging, which have a fingle' entrance, and are divided into many apart- 

 ments; it goes about during night, in fearch of fruits, roots, and herbs, and is particularly fond of the 

 box-wood fhrub; when threatened by an enemy, it rolls ltfelf into a round form, prefencing its quills, 

 or fpines, on every fide as a defence : The female brings from two to four 'young ones at a birth in 

 fpringj and thefe are very eafily tamed. This is a harmlefs animal, except to gardens, where it makes 

 great devaftation on pot-herbs •, in a domeftic ftate, when angry, it runs its head into a corner, erects 

 its fpines aj : • an) afi 1 lant, and makes a grunting or fnorting noife. 



Ther dh -rlities between the Porcupines of Italy and thofe of Afia and Africa; the quills 



of-tl iderabJ.y fhoiter, and the creft much lmaller: Thefe differences are particularly 



noticed 



