148 HUDSON^ BAY HYRAX. 
The cage, indeed, was large, and the birds having 
a perch to sit upon in the upper part of it, they 
did not annoy one another. 
■ c In Am bar a this animal is called ashkoko, 
which I apprehend is derived from the singularity 
of those long herinaceous hairs, which, like small 
horns, grow about his back, and which in Am- 
hara are called ashok. In Arabia and Syria, he 
is called Israel’s sheep, or gannini Israel, for what 
reason I know not, unless it is chiefly from his 
frequenting the rocks of Horeb and Sinai, where 
the children of Israel made their forty years' 
perigrination ; perhaps this name obtains only 
among the Arabians. I apprehend he is known 
by that of saphan in the Hebrew, and is the ani- 
mal erroneously called by our translators cuiiicu^ 
lus, the rabbit or coney." 
Hudson's bay hyrax. 
1?ms was first described by Mr. Pennant, and 
was in the Leverian Museum. Its colour is a ci- 
nereous brown, with the ends of the hairs white. 
It is a native of Hudson’s Bay. Its size is nearly 
that of a common marmot ; the two upper teeth 
are moderately large, and shaped like those of 
the Cape hyrax ; the four lower are very strong, 
rather long than broad, and are very abruptly 
truncated, without any appearance of denticula- 
tions ; the feet are tetradactylous ; of a similar 
form to those of the Cape hyrax, but have rounded 
claws on all the toes. Nothing particular is 
known of the manners or Natural history of this 
species* 
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