64 B A D G E k. ClafsL 



baiting in all its cruelty was a favourite paftime with 

 our anceftors. We find it in queen Elizabeths days 

 exhibited, (tempered with other merry difports) as an 

 entertainment for an ambaffador *, and again among 

 the various amufements prepared for her majefly ac 

 the princely Kenelworth. 



Genus IX. The BADGER. 



Species I. Th^ BADGER. 



Badger, Brock, Gray, Pate, 

 Taxus five Meles, Raii Jyn. 

 auad. 185 



Meyers an. i. Tab. 31. 



Sib. Scot. I I . 



Meles pilis ex fordide albo et 

 nigro variegatis veftita, capite 

 ta-niis alternadm albis et ni- 

 gris variegato. Brijfon quad. 

 183 



Be Biiffon, Tom. viii. Tab. 7. 

 p. 104. 



Gifner quad. 686. 



Urfus meles, Urfus Cauda con» 

 colore, corpore fupia cinereo, 

 fubtus nigro, fafcia longitu- 

 dinali per oculos aurefque ni- 

 gra. Lin. fyjl. 70. 



Coaci Cauda brevi. Kkin quad. 



73- 

 Meies unguibus anticis longiffi- 



mis. Faun. Suec. zo. 

 Br. Zoo I. 30. 



N A M E S. 



Brii. PryfLIwyd, Pryf penfiith Germ. Tachs 



Fren. Le Taiffon, Le Biaireau Dut. Varkens Das 



Ital. Tafl'o S-Lved. GrafSuin 



Span. Texon Dan. Grevlin, Brok 



Pert. Texugo 



THOUGH the badger is a beafl of great 

 ftrength, and is furniihed with ftrong teeth, as 

 if formed for rapine, yet it is found to be an animal 

 perfedly inoffenfive : roots, fruits, grafs, infects, and 



StO-My IJ62, 



frogs 



