THE BADGER. 



Generic Characters. 

 Six cutting and two canine teeth in each jaw. 

 Five toes on each foot ; the claws on the fore-feet very Itraight 

 and long. 



A tranfverfe orifice between the tail and the anus. 



Synonims. 



Meles, Plin. Hijl. Nat. lib. viii. c. 38. Gefner Quad. 327. 



Briffbn Quad. 183. 

 Meles, sive Taxus Rati Syn. Quad. 185. 

 Taxus, Aldrovand. digit, 264. Jonfi. Quad. t. 64, 

 Ursus Meles, Linn. Syjl. Nat. 70. 

 Graf-suin, Lin. Faun. Suec. No. 20. 

 Meles, Taxus, Tassus, Blerellus, Jazwiec, Borsuk^ 



Rzaczinjki Polon. 233. 

 Da chs, Kramer Auftr. 313. 



Coati cauda brevi, Coati griseus, Taxus, Meles, Tax, 



Klein Quad. 73. 

 Common Badger, Pennant Syn. Quad. 142. 

 Le Blaireau, ou Taison, de Buffon, viii. 104. tab. vii. 



PERHAPS no animal has been more defamed, by vulgar prejudices, than 

 the Badger. Harmlefs and inoffenlive in its nature, it is accufed of ferocity, 

 merely becaufe it is furnimed with formidable weapons of offence, and has 

 fumcient flrength to ufe them ; of which, however, it avails itfelf only for its 



