PORCUPINE, 
of Afia and Africa: is an harmlefs animal: lives on 
fruits, roots and vegetables : lleeps by day, feeds 
by night: the report of its darting its quils fabu¬ 
lous : when angry, retires and runs its nofe into a 
corner, erects its fpines, and oppofes them to its 
affailant: makes a fnorting noife. 
Thefe animals produce a Bezoar-, but, according 
to Seb a , only thofe which inhabit Java , Sumatra 
and Malacca . He has given the figure of one un¬ 
der the name of Porcus aculeatus , feu Hyftrix Ma - 
laccenfis: it differs little from the African and Indian 
Idnd, and is allowed by him to be the fame fpecies *. 
Porcus aculeatus fylveftris, feu Hyftrix cauda longiffima, aculeis 
Hyftrix orientalis ftngularis. Seb. undique obftta, in extremo pan- 
Muf.l. 84. tab. lii. niculata. Briffon quad. % g. 
Acanthipn cauda prcelonga, acu- Hyftrix macroura. H. pedibuS 
tis pilis horrida, in exitu quaft pentadattylis, cauda longiffima: 
panniculata. Klein quad. 67. aculeis clavatis. Lin.fyjl. 77. 
P. with long whifkers: Ihort naked ears : large 
bright eyes: body fiiort and thick, covered with 
long ftiff hairs as {harp as needles, of different colors, 
according as the rays of light fall on them : feet di¬ 
vided into five toes ; that which ferves as a thumb 
turns backwards : the tail is as long as the body, very 
{lender to the end, which confiffs of a thick tuft; 
the bridles appearing as if jointed •, are thick in the 
middle, and rife one out of the other like grains of 
rice % are tranfparent, and of a filvery appearance. 
* Seb. Muf. I. 81. tab. li. If the fame fpecies, it varies from the 
common kind, having five toes on each foot, pendulous ears, and 
no creft. Linnaus ranks it with the hedgehogs, under the title of 
Erinaceus Malaccmfxs. E. auribus pendulis. 
S 4 Inhabits 
263 
194. Long¬ 
tailed. 
