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Title: A history of British quadrupeds, including the Cetacea Identifier: cu31924003031139 Year: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookyear1874">1874</a> (<a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookdecade1870">1870s</a>) Authors: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookauthorBell_Thomas_1792_1880">Bell, Thomas, 1792-1880</a>; <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookauthorTomes_Robert_F">Tomes, Robert F</a>; <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookauthorAlston_Edward_Richard_1845_1881">Alston, Edward Richard, 1845-1881</a> Subjects: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=booksubjectMammals">Mammals</a> Publisher: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookpublisherLondon_J_Van_Voorst">London, J. Van Voorst</a> Contributing Library: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookcontributorCornell_University_Library">Cornell University Library</a> Digitizing Sponsor: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=booksponsorMSN">MSN</a>


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Text Appearing After Image: Genus, Meles. (Cuv.) BADGER. Generic Character.—Second incisive tooth in the lower jaw placed behind the others ; grinders §, in an uninterrupted series; feet plantigrade; a. glan- dular pouch underneath the tail, having a transverse orifice. THE BADGER. BROCK. GREY. BAWSENED-PATE. Meles taxus. Vrsus taxus, Schreib. Saiig. III. t. 142. Ursws meles, LiNN^ns, Syst. Nat. XII. p. 70. Meles vulgaris, Deshak. Mammal, p. 173, sp. 266. „ taxus, Flem. Brit. An. p. 9. Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 10. Le Blaireau, Bdffon, Hist. Nat. VII. p. 104, t. vii. The Badger, Penk. Brit. Zool. I. p. 85, t. viii. Since the extirpation of the Bear, Ursus arctos, of the existence of which mention is made in Scottish history as


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