Crested porcupine, Hystrix cristata, and tiger cowrie, Cypraea tigris. Porc-epic, Porcelaine. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse after an illustration by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville's Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle (Picturesque Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1834-39.

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