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t. 
Six cutting teeth, two canine, in each jaw, 
Five toes before; five behind: very long ftrait 
claws on the forefeet. 
A tranfverfe orifice between the tail, and the anus. 
Badger, Brock, Gray, Pate, 
Taxus five Meles. Razz /yz. 
quad. 185. 
Meyer's an. i. Tab. 31. 
Sib. Scot. 11. 
Meles pilis ex fordidé albo et 
nigro variegatis veftita, ca- 
pite teniis alternatim albis 
et nigris variegato. Briffox 
quad, 183. 
Gefner quad. 686. 
Urfus meles. Urfus cauda 
concolore, corpore fupra ci- 
nereo, fubtus nigro, fafcia 
longitudinali per oculos au- 
refque nigra. Liz. /y/t. 70. 
Coati cauda brevi. Klein quad. 
hae ? ‘wy heya 
Meles unguibus anticis lon- 
gifimis. Faun. Suec. 20. 
De Buffon, Tom. viii. Tab. 7. Br. Zool. 30. Syn quad. No. 
Pp. 104. 142. 
Brit. Pryf Llwyd, Pryf pen- Germ. Tachs 
frith Dut. Varkens Das 
Fren. Le Taiffon, Le Blaireau Swed. Graf Suin 
Ital. Taffo Dan. Grevlin, Brok 
Spaz. ‘Texon 
Port. Texugo 
HOUGH the badger is a beaft of great 
ftreneth, and is furnifhed with ftrong teeth, 
as if formed for rapine, yet it is found to be 
an animal perfeétly inoffenfive: roots, fruits, grafs, 
infects, and frogs are its food: it is charged with 
deftroying lambs and rabbets; but, on enquiry, 
there feems to be no other reafon to think it a beaft 
of prey, than from the analogy there is between 
G 3 its 
85 
13. COMMON. 
