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the middle of the forehead, are white: each ear and 
eye is inclofed in a pyramidal bed of black; the 
bafe of which inclofes the former; the point ex- 
tends beyond the eye to the nofe: the hairs on the 
body are of three colors; the bottoms of a dirty yel- 
lowifh white ; the middle black; the ends afh-co- 
lored, or grey ; from whence the proverb, As grey 
as a badger. The hairs which cover the tail are 
very long, and of the fame colors with thofe of the 
body: the throat and under parts of the body are 
black: the legs and feet of the fame color, are very 
fhort, ftrong and thick: each foot is divided into 
five toes; thofe on the fore feet are armed with long 
claws, well adapted for digging; in walking the 
badger treads on its heel, like the bear ; which brings 
the belly very near the ground. Immediately below 
the tail, between that and the anus, is a narrow 
tranfverfe orifice, which opens in a kind of pouch, 
from whence exudes a white fubftance of a very 
feetid fmell, this feems peculiar to the badger and 
the Hyena. | 
This animal is not mentioned by Ayiffotie, not 
that it was unknown to the ancients, for Pliny 
takes notice of it *, 
Naturalifts once diftinguifhed the badger by the 
name of the fwine-badger, and the dog-badger ; 
from the fuppofed refemblance of their heads to 
* Alia folertia in metu Me/ibus, fufflate cutis diitentu i€tus 
hominum et morfus canum arcent. Lié, viii. c. 38. 
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