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Title: The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) NCRS Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 Johnston, George, 1797-1855 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: London : Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row
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ize as carnivorous, from the trace of a cutting character which it exhibits on iis outer side ;behind this is a square tuberculous tooth, the largest of the series; and, on the lower jaw, the last butone Ukewise commences to bear some resemblance to the inferior carnivorous tooth; but as thereare two tubercles on its inward border as elevated as its cutting point, it performs the office of atuberculous one; the last below is very small. [The Badger, in fact, has precisely the same den-tition as the Weasels and Otters, presenting a modification of that type for less carnivorous regimen.]These animals have the tardy gait and nocturnal habit of all the preceding; their tail is short, [and bich I hid Bn opportunity of studyin ponscsscd tbe prehensile power of t degree, merely resting slightly 0» led throaghout its length, and never coili t Strong presamptive eviden«ppcrt*in to the Viverrinc groigeogTApliic range of llie latleother instance. Tbe prcsenci for the Yew genus.—Eo MAMMALIA.
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Fig. 25,—Common Barlger. coramonly held erect]. Their toes are wiuch enveloped hi the skin ; and, what eminently distinguishes tliem, is a pouch situate beneath the tail,from which exudes a fatty, fetid humour, [asin the Sltunks, Weasels, &c., to which theBadgers are very closely allied]. The longclaws of their fore-feet enable them to burrowwith much facility. The European Badger iUrsHs metes, Lin.; 31.taxns, Auct.)—Greyish above, beneath black, witha dusky band on each side of the head. ITiat ofAmerica {MeL hudsonius [ (?) M. labradonus, Sa-bine; Vrstts iaxus, Schreb.] does not appear todiffer essentially. [It is even generically very dis-tinct, pertaining to the ne.xt division. A secondspecies of Badger, however, appears to me to ex-ist in the Balysaur of India {Arctoiiiix coUans,F. Cuv.; Mi/daus eullaris, Gray,) which M. F.Cuvier lias represented much too Hog-like inhis figure; the snout being scarcely longer thanthat of the European Badger, the fur somewhatcoarser, and th
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