ASIATIC HEDGEHOG. 
This anlmal, with the fate of too mauy 
others, appears to have been very imperfectly 
, described by naturalists. Pennant, who secnib-. 
to have most particularly described it, has not 
quoted any Linnaean name : though some late. 
^vriters suppose it to be the Erinaceus Ecau- 
datus, and others tlie Erinaceus Setosus, of 
that great Swedish naturalist; the latter beini; 
denominated the Tendrac, and the former tli'-; 
'I'anrcc. Perhaps, Pennant might be of opi- 
nion, with us, that there is too much uncer- 
tainty in both these shght accounts of Liii- 
naeus, for either to be hastily adopted, notwitli- 
standing it is vSufficientlv clear that the Asiatic 
Hedgehog was meant in .one or other of the 
descriptions. 
BufFon describes, together, tlie Tanrec and 
tke Tendrac, or Asiatic Hedgehog, in one 
combined account: yet he scarcely admits 
-them to be of the Hedgehog race; and, in a 
note on this article, :severelv attacks the Eri- 
.naceus Americanus Albus.of Seba. I'hls 
■ ' - Hedgehog,- 
