BRAStLIAN P6RClJPi^j£. 
M. De BufFon," concludes Pennant, " ha{ 
made mention of this animal in his work 
but unjustly reproaches Marcgrave with con 
founding it with the Mexican species." 
In what even Pennant remarks respe6ling 
this animal's habits, &c. which he has also 
been under the -necessity to compile, we su 
5pe6l some confusion. It inhabits," he 
says, Mexico and Brasil, and extends to 
Chili." If this he correct, it should have had 
somewhat more than a local appellation, con 
fined to one single country which it inha- 
bits ; since, for aught that appears to the con- 
trary, it is equally the Porcupine of Mexico, 
of Chili, &;c. and may seem to excuse, if noti 
to justify, BufFon's confusion of two very dif- 
ferent animals. The Mexican Porcupine, ac- 
cording to Pennant, seems confined to the 
mountains of Mexico: it is of a dusky colour, 
with very long bristles intermixed with the 
down; the spines are three inches long, slender, 
and varied with white and yellow, but scarcely 
apparent, except on the tail. Hernandez tells 
us, that this animal grows to the bulk of a mid- 
^le-siz-ed dog; and that it's tail, though thicker 
and 
