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CARNIVORA. 
Notwithstanding such prejudices against it, and 
notwithstanding the respectable opinion of the ele- 
gant Buffon, the hedgehog is now esteemed a very 
harmless animal, destructive only to worms and 
insects, on which it feeds, occasionally with roots 
and vegetables ; and it may be rendered very ser- 
viceable in a house pestered with the insects com- 
monly called black beetles, as it pursues and feeds 
on these, and presently clears a dwelling of so un- 
pleasant an inmate. 
THE LONG-EARED HEDGEHOG. 
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l’hERISSON A LONGUES OREILLES. 
Erinaceus Auy'itus. Pallas. 
This species is smaller than the common hedge- 
hog, and has very large ears. It is found in the 
neighbourhood of the river Volga, and from the north 
of the Caspian as far as Egypt. The legs and belly 
are covered with fur. In its manners, &c. it re- 
sembles the common hedgehog. 
That the powers of its stomach are perfectly 
qualified for an insectivorous regimen may be in- 
ferred from Dr. Pallas’s observation, that this hedge- 
hog can eat any number of cantharides, while a 
single one will dreadfully torment a cat or dog. 
The specimen here figured measured only four 
inches and a quarter from nose to tail. 
