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Five toes on each foot. XVUE. 
Body covered with fhort ftrong fpines. URCHIN. 
Echinus fe. erinaceus terreftris. Echinus terreftris. Ge/zer 35. Common. 
Rai fyn. quad. 231. quad. 368. 
Meyer’s an. 1. ‘Tab. 95, 96. Erinaceus europeus. Liz. 
826. Scot. 11. Me 
_Erinaceus parvus noftras. Sed. Erinaceus fpinofus auricula- 
Mus. i. p. 78. Lab. ag. f. tus. Faun. Suec. 22; 
m2. Acanthion vulgaris noftras. 
Erinaceus auriculis  erectis. Klein quad. 66. 
Briffon quad. 128. Br. Zool. 51. Syn. quad. No, 
De Buffon, Tom. vill. 28. 247. 
Tab. 6. 
Brit. Draenog, Draen y coed Germ. Igel : 
Fren. L’Heriffon Dut. Eegel-varken 
ftal. Riccio. Swed. Imgelhot 
Span. Erizo ~ Dan. Pin-fuin, Pin-foe 
Port. Ourizo 
HE ufual length of this animal, exclufive of pesecr. 
the tail, is ten inches: the tail is little more 
than an inch long; but fo concealed by the {pines, 
as {carce to be vifible. The form of the nofe is like 
that of the hog; the upper mandible being much 
longer than the lower, and the end flat: the nof- 
trils are narrow, terminated on each fide by a 
thin loofe flap: the color of the nofe is dufky; it is 
covered by a few {cattered hairs: the upper part 
of the head, the fides, and the rump, are clothed with 
ftrong ftiff hairs, approaching the nature of brif- 
tles, of a yellowifh and cinereous hue. 
The 
