BADGER. 
zol 
Six cutting teeth ; two canine in each jaw. 
Five toes before, five behind: very long ilrait 
claws on the fore feet. 
A tranlverfe orifice between the tail and the anus. 
Mcles Plinii, lib. viii. c. 38. Gef- tceniis alternatim albis et nigris 
ner quad. 327. variegato. Brijfon quad. 183. 
Meles, live Taxus Raiijyn. quad. Le Blaireau, ou Taifon. de Buf- 
fon, viii. 104. tab.v ii. 
Meles, Taxus, Taffus,Blerellus 5 Urfus meles. U. cauda conco- 
Jazwiec, Borfuk. Rzaczinjki Po- lore, corpore fupra cinereo, fub- 
Im, 23 3. _ tus nigro, fafcia longitudinali per 
Coati cauda brevi, Coati grifeus, oculos aurefque nigra. Lin. Jyft. 
Taxus, meles, Tax. Klein quad. 70. Meles unguibus anticis lon- 
73 - giffimis. Graf-fuin. Faun, fuec . 
Dachs Kramer Aujlr. 313. No. 20. Br. Zool. I. 64. Br. 
Meles pilis ex fordide albo et Zool. illujlr. tab. lii. 
nigro variegatis veftita, capite 
B. with finall eyes : ihort rounded ears: ihort thick 
neck : with nofe, chin, lower fides of the cheeks, 
and middle of the forehead white: ears and eyes 
inclofed in a pyramidal bed of black: hair on the 
body long and rude; their bottoms a yellowifh 
white, middle black, ends afh colored : throat, 
bread, belly, and legs black: tail covered with 
long hairs, colored like thofe on the body : legs 
very ihort and thick : claws on the fore feet very 
long: a foetid white matter exudes from the ori¬ 
fice beneath the tail: animal of a very clumfy 
make. 
Inhabits moil parts of Europe , as far N. as Nor¬ 
way % and RuJJia ^ and the ftep or defert beyond 
* Pontop. hijl. Norway, II. 28. 
Orenlurgh , 
XXL B AD* 
GER. 
142.Common. 
