t66 PORCUPINE. 
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ig6 .Canada« Porcupine from Hudfons bay. nofo. Lity.Jyfl* y6> 
Ed-iv. 52. Ellis's‘voy. 42. Clerk's Hyitrix aculeis fub pilis ocultis, 
1- j 77> 1 9. 1 * cauda brevi et cralfa, BrijJ'on quad. 
Cavia Hudfonis, Klein quad. 51. 87. 
Hyilrix dor fata. _ H. palmis te- L’Urfon, de Biffin, xii. 426. 
trada&ylis, plantis pentadadtylis, tab. Iv. 
cauda mediocri, dorfo folo ipi- 
P. with.fhort ears, hid in the fur: head, body, kgs 
and upper part of the tail, covered with foft, long, 
dark brown hair: on the upper part of the head, 
back, body and tail, numbers of fharp ftrong quils ; 
the longeft on the back, the lefc towards the head 
and Tides ; the longeft three inches ; but all are hid 
in the hair: intermixed, are fome ftiff ftraggling 
hairs, three inches longer than the reft, tipt with 
dirty white : under fide of the tail white : four toes 
on the fore feet, five behind, each armed with long 
claws, hollowed on their underfide: the form of 
the body is exadfly that of a beaver ; but is not half 
the ftze : one, which Mr. Banks brought from New - 
foundland , was about the ftze of a hare, but more 
compadtly made : the tail about fix inches long. 
Inhabits N. America , as high as HudfotisBay: makes 
its neft under the roots of great trees, and will alfo 
climb among the boughs, which the Indians cut down 
when one is in them, and kill the animal by linking it 
over the nofe : are very plentiful! near Hudfon's Bay , 
and many of the trading Indians depend on them for 
food, efteeming them both whole fome and pleafant: 
feed on wild fruits and bark of trees, efpecially ju- 
niper: eat fnow in winter, drink water in fummer ; 
but 
