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CARNIVORA. 
THE STRIPED -TENREC. LE TENREC RATE. 
Erinaceus Semispinosus. Cuvier. 
This species of the Madagascar hedgehog is not 
larger than a common mole, and is covered with 
silky hair and prickles. It is striped black and yel- 
low ; and is the species which Buffon describes in 
the third volume of the Supplement, and figures at 
plate 37 as a young tenrec. 
