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PORCUPINE, 
as if out of breath : grunts like a fow * : grows very 
fat: its flefh white, and very good: climbs trees, but 
very (lowly *, in defending, twifts its tail round the 
branches, for fear of falling : is no more capable of 
(hooting its quils than the firffc: may be tamed. 
Pifo. fays there is a greater and leiTer kind. 
This fpecies is very rarely brought into Europe . 
I had opportunity of defcribing it from a fpecimen 
fome time in poffeflion of Mr. Greenwood ; who was 
fo obliging as to permit me to have a drawing made 
of it, from which a very faithfull figure is here given. 
M. de Buffon + has made an article of this animal in 
his work *, and M. Daubenton defcribes and figures 
one fo different from this, and fo like that of North 
America , that it feems to be the fame with the fpe¬ 
cies he defcribes under the name of L'Urfon ; for he 
gives both of them four toes before, five behind, 
and neither of them a tail half fo long, and that 
covered with hairs and quils: each circumflance 
agreeing with the following fpecies 5 neither with 
this. 
* Vocem edit tit Sus iii. Marcgrave, 233. 
f Under the name 'of LeCoendou , xii. 421. tab. liv. 
Porcupine 
