. The quadrupeds of North America [microform]. Mammals; Rodentia; Mammifères; Rongeurs. i \ 278 CANADA roUCUPlNE SYN0NYME9. Hystrix P1LO8U8 Amerioanus, Catcsby, Cuv., App., p. 30, 1740. The PoRCUi'iNE from Hudson's Hav, Edwards' Birds, j) 52. Uystrix IIi'DsoNius, IJrissoii, Ri'gm^ Animal, p. 128. Hystrix Dorsata, Linn., Syst., Edwards, xii., p. 57. " " Erxlcbcn, p. 345. " " Schreber, Siiugetliieri!. p. 605. L'Urson, Buflon, vol. xii., p. 420. Canada Pokoupink, Forst , I'hil. Trans., vol. Ixii., p. 374. <• " Peini., (iuadrupeds, vol. ii., p. 126. '. Hystrix Dorsata,
. The quadrupeds of North America [microform]. Mammals; Rodentia; Mammifères; Rongeurs. i \ 278 CANADA roUCUPlNE SYN0NYME9. Hystrix P1LO8U8 Amerioanus, Catcsby, Cuv., App., p. 30, 1740. The PoRCUi'iNE from Hudson's Hav, Edwards' Birds, j) 52. Uystrix IIi'DsoNius, IJrissoii, Ri'gm^ Animal, p. 128. Hystrix Dorsata, Linn., Syst., Edwards, xii., p. 57. " " Erxlcbcn, p. 345. " " Schreber, Siiugetliieri!. p. 605. L'Urson, Buflon, vol. xii., p. 420. Canada Pokoupink, Forst , I'hil. Trans., vol. Ixii., p. 374. <• " Peini., (iuadrupeds, vol. ii., p. 126. '. Hystrix Dorsata, Sabine, Fianklin's .lourn., p. C04. " Harlan, Fauna, p. 109. << " Godman, Nat. Hist., vol. ii., p. 160. " PiLOsus, Rich., Fauna Horcali Americana, p. 214. HuDsoNius, Dekay, Nat. Hist. New-York, p. 77. DESCRIPTION. The body of this species is thick, very broad, , and to a high degree elumsy. The back is much arched in a curve from the nose to the buttocks, when it declines in an angle to the lail. The whole upper surface of the body from the nose to the extremity of the tail is covered by long and rather coarse hair, intermixed with a dense mass of spines or (juills. These are of a cylindrical shape, very sharp at the extremity and pointed at the roots. The animal is capable of erecting them at pleasure, and they are detached by the slightest touch; they arc barbed with numerous smiill reversed points or prickles, which, when once inserted in the flesh, will by the mere movement of the limbs work themselves deeper into the body. There seems to be in cer- tain parts of the body of this species a regular gradation from hair to spines; on the nose for instance, the hair is rather soft, a little higher up it is succeeded by bristles intermixed with small spines. These spines continue to lengthen on the hinder parts of the head, to increase in size on the shoulders, and are longer and inon^ rigid on the buttocks and thighs. In specimens of old ani
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