HEDGE-HOG. 
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XXXV. 
E EDGE- 
HOG. 
247.COM MON, 
Five toes on each foot. 
Body covered with ftrong fhort fpines. 
Erinaceus Agricola An, Subter. 48r. Erinaceus Europeus. E. auriculis 
Echinus terreltris Gefner quad , • rotundatis naribus criftatis. Lin , 
368. fyfc. 75. Igelkott. Faun.fuec. No . 
Echinus fc. Erinaceus terreftris. 22. Br.Zool. I. 106. 
Erchin, or Hedge-hog, Raiifyn. Erinaceus auriculis ereftis. Brif - 
Quad. zof . . fon quad. iz8. Seb. Muf. I. 78. 
Jez Rzaczinjki Fohn. 233. xlix. 
Acanthion vulgaris rioftras* Klein L’Heriffon Bujfon> viii. 28. 
Quad. 66’ ta/?. vi. 
fgel. Kramer. Aujjr. 314. 
H. with a Ion? nofe: noftrils bordered on each fide 
with a loofe flap : ears rounded, broad and naked : 
eyes fmall: legs fhort, naked and duiky : inner toe 
the fhorteft : claws weak: upper part of the face, 
the fides and rump, covered with ftrong coarfe hair 
of a yellowifh and cinereous color; the back, with 
ftrong fharp fpines of a whitifh color, with a bar of 
black through their middle: tail an inch long: 
length, from nofe to tail, ten inches. 
Inhabits Europe , Siberia Madagafcar ft : is in 
motion during night, keeps retired in the day : 
feeds on roots, fruits, worms and infects : erroneouily 
charged with fucking cows and hurting their ud¬ 
ders : refides in fmall thickets, in hedges, and at 
the bottom of ditches covered with bullies ^ lies well 
wrapped up in mofs, grafs, or leaves, and during 
winter rolls itfelf up and deeps out that dreary fea- 
;* Seb. Muf. I. 79. Seba defcribes one from Siberia, that differs fo 
little from this, as not to form a new fpecies. 
'[ Flcmmi <voy. Madagafcar , 132. 
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