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BADGER. 



Class I. 



GENUS IX. BADGER. 



Toes, five before ; five behind. 

 Claws on the fore feet very long, strait. 

 Orifice a transverse between the tail and the 

 anus. > 



13. Common. Badger, Brock, Gray Pate, 

 Taxus sive Meles. Rati syn. 

 quad. 185. 



Meyer s an. i. Tab- 31. 



Sib. Scot. 1 1 . 



Meles pilis ex sordide albo et 

 nigro variegatis vestita, ca- 

 pite tasniis alternatim albis 

 et nigris variegato. Brisson 

 quad. 183. 



De Buffon, Tom. viii. Tab. 7. 

 p. 104. 



Gesn. quad. 686. 



Ursns Meles. Ursus cauda 

 concolore, corpore supra ci- 

 nereo, subtus nigro, fascia 

 longitudinali per oculos au- 

 resquenigra. Gm. Lin. 102. 



Coati cauda brevi. Klein quad. 

 73. 



Meles unguibus anticis Ion- 

 gissimis. Faun. Suec. 20. 



Br. Zool. 30. Hist. quad. No. 

 215. ii. p. 14. Arct. Zool. 

 i. p. 81. 



Brit. Pryf Lhvyd, Pryf pen- Germ. Tachs 



frith 

 Fren. Le Taisson, Le Blaireau 

 Ital. Tasso 

 Span. Texon 

 Port. Texugo 



Dut. Varkens Das 

 Steed. GrafSuin 

 Dan. Grevlin, Brok. 



JL HOUGH the badger is a beast of great 

 strength, and is furnished with strong teeth, 

 as if formed for rapine, yet it is found to be 

 perfectly inoffensive: roots, fruits, grass, in- 



