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439 4. Canadian Porcupine. — 3. Hyfirix dorfata. 3. 



The tail is of a middle length, and not prehenfile ; the hind feet have five toes; the 

 whole body is covered with long foft fur, intermixed with fpines on the upper part 

 of the head, body, and tail. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 257. Anft. zool. n. 42. 



Hyftrix dorfata, having four toes on the fore and five on the hind feet, with fpines only on the 

 back. Syft. nat. ed. Gmel. i. 119. n. 3. Schreber, iv. 605. t. clxix. — Hyftrix hudfonius, or Hud- 

 fon's Bay Porcupine, having the fpines hid under the hair, with a fliort thick tail. Brill", quad. 

 128. — Hairy American Porcupine. Catefby, Carol, app. 30. — Cavia hudfonis, or Hudfon's Bav 

 Cavy. Klein, quad. 51. — Porcupine from Hudfon's Bay. Edw. av. i. 52. t. 52. Ellis, vov. 42. 

 Clark, voy. i. 177. 191. — Urfon, or Canada Porcupine. Sm. Buff", vii. 83. pi. ccviii. 



44° j3- White Canadian Porcupine, — H. dorfata alba. 



Of a uniform white colour. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 257. Lev. Muf. 



Inhabits North America, as far north as the country about Hudfon's Bay, and Newfoundland. — 

 Digs holes under the roots of trees, and even afcends them, living on their fruits and bark, efpecially 

 on the juniper fhrub ; it laps water like a Dog, and in winter eats ihow as drink : The whole 

 body, head, legs, and upper part of the tail, are covered with fur of a dark nifty brown colour, con- 

 fifting of one feries of long foft hairs, and a lower foft coat of down, like the Beaver, interfperfed with 

 fome long, ftiff, ftraggling hairs, tipt with dirty white ; intermixed with this, and entirely hid in it, 

 are numbers of ftrong fharp quills, or fpines, on the upper part of the head, back, and tail, near three 

 inches long on the back, fhorter towards the head and fides ; thefe are fo (lightly attached to the 

 Ikin, that, by ftroaking the animal, they come out flicking to the hands. This animal is nearly as 

 big as a Hare; the tail is about fix inches long, and white underneath-, the ears are fhort, and hid in 

 the fur. 



4.41 5. Long-tailed Porcupine. — 4. Hyfirix macroura. 4. 



Has five toes on all the feet, and a very long tail with jointed fpines. Schreber, iv. 607. 

 t. clxx. 



Hyftrix orientalis, or Oriental Porcupine, having a very long tail, tufted at the end, and uni- 

 verfally covered with fpines. Brifi". quad. 131 . — Porcus aculeatus filveftris, Hyftrix orientalis fin- 

 .gularis, Wild Hedge-hog, or Singular Oriental Porcupine. Seba, Muf. i. 84. t. 52. f. 1. Bont. Tav. 

 54. — Long-tailed Porcupine. Penn. hift, of quad. n. 2^4. 



Inhabits the iflands of the Indian Ocean. — The body is fliort and ftrongly made, and is covered 

 with long ftiff hairs, as fharp as needles, which reflect various colours ; the tail, which is as long as 

 the body, and tapers to a very flender point, is tufted at the extremity with a bundle of long briftles, 

 of a tranfparent filvery colour, compofed of joints riling one above the other like grains of rice. The 

 feet are all divided into five toes, one of which, ferving as a thumb, turns backwards to ailift in climb- 

 ing trees. The cars are fhort and naked ; the eyes are large and bright. 



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