THE FASCICULATED PORCUPINE. 
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for comparison were fully at his disposal : the latter 
also, in his recently published genera of Mammalia, 
enumerates them both : and we must therefore conclude 
them to be distinct. The remaining generic characters 
are derived chiefly from the tail, which is elongated 
to one-third the length of the body, and is covered 
throughout nearly the whole of its extent by scales 
disposed in rings, the tip alone being surmounted by a 
tuft of long flat bristles having the form neither of hairs 
nor of quills, but bearing a close resemblance, as Buflbn 
has aptly remarked, to narrow slips of parchment cut 
in an irregular manner. 
In the description of his animal Seba has cited Bon- 
tius as having previously observed it, but the latter 
author speaks only of a Porcupine in general terms 
and offers no description, while his figure is evidently 
from one of the blocks used by Piso for the Coendou 
in an earlier part of the same miscellaneous volume. 
On the figure given by Seba, Linnaeus founded his 
Hystrix macroura ; but Buflbn having quoted neither 
Seba nor Linnaeus, Dr. Shaw took it for granted that 
his was a different animal, and consequently gave it a 
new name, that of Hystrix fasciculata. We entertain, 
however, but little doubt, notwithstanding some trifling 
discrepancies in the figures, that Sir Stamford Raffles 
was right in his conjecture, that they both represent 
one and the same species. Seba speaks of it as inha- 
biting the neighbourhood of Celebes, Buffbn as a native 
of the Malayan peninsula, and Sir Stamford Raffles as 
found in Sumatra. 
The differences between this species and the Common 
Porcupine are obvious at the first glance. Its general 
colour is nearly the same, but with less intermixture of 
brown. The upper parts of the body, the outer sides 
of the limbs, and the head, neck, and face, are of this 
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