LONG-TAILED PORCUPINE. 
This animal is a native of the isles of the 
Indian Archipelagp, and lives in the forests. 
It is the Hystrix Orientah's of Brlsson; and 
the Wild Hedgehog, or Singular Oriental 
Porcupine, of Seba: which, BufFon says, **he 
is even tempted to believe," is only the Canada 
Porcupine, or Edwards's Porcupine from Hud- 
son's Bay. He seems, however, to have 
doubts : we have none, that he is quite mis- 
taken in this conjecSlure. 
The reader, without the trouble of refe- 
rence, may wish to see the entire passage 
from Bulfbn, on which our so blunt decision 
is grounded^ 
" We are," says Buffbn, *' even tempted 
to belieYC, that the animal d-jscribcd and en- 
graved by Seba, under the name of a singular 
East India Porcupine, and which was after- 
wards pointed out by Klein, Erisson, and Lin- 
njEus, in their mcthodlcnl catalogues, by the 
chara(Elers given by Seba, might be the same 
with the animal under question. This would 
not, as formerly remarked^ be the only tuTic 
that 
