CARNIVORA. 
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THE TENDRAC. LE TENDRAC. 
Erinaceus Setosus. L. 
The teeth of this species agree with those of the 
last, except that there are six incisors in each jaw. 
The spines are also more flexible, and much longer, 
and the hairs more silky. It is nearly ten inches 
long. The spines cover the whole upper part of the 
animal; are yellowish at their roots and tips, but 
black in the middle ; and have long hairs intermixed 
with them. 
It digs with its snout, and grunts and wallows in 
the mire like the hog. It burrows a long, sloping, 
zig-zag hole in the ground ; and remains torpid for 
some weeks, during which time it sheds its bristles. 
The flesh is much prized by the natives of Mada- 
gascar, who take great pains in hunting it. 
Some confusion in the application of the synonyms 
of these two species seems to have occurred. All 
who have described them appear to have applied the 
names as they are associated here, with the exception 
of Boddaert and Desmarest, who make the erinaceus 
setosus of Linnaeus to be the tanrec, and the ecaudatus 
of the same great writer to be the tendrac. 
