THE FASCICULATED PORCUPINE. 
Atherura fascicvlata. Cuv. 
Although tolerably described and figured by BufFon, 
and probably also by Seba, the curious animal above 
represented had subsequently been lost to science until 
within less than two years of the present time, when it 
was recovered almost simultaneously both in its original 
habitat and in a very distant quarter of the globe. The 
only notices of which we are aware that have yet been 
published respecting it, consist of those furnished by 
the authors just mentioned, of a cursory reference by 
Sir Stamford Raffles, and of a few words in the late 
edition of M. Cuvier's Regne Animal, in which latter 
work it is formed into a new genus, on the authority, 
we presume, of a skeleton and skin transmitted from 
India by M. Diard in the course of the year 1828. 
Nearly at the same time a living individual was brought 
