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1851 STEEL ENGRAVING PRINT This print is over 100 years old
(reverse is blank) from the book ANIMAL KINGDOM Below is the list of animals
starting from the top All furballs agree that
the top picture is more of a sloth like mole with a tail than a
chinchilla! Figure
1. Chinchilla lanigera, chinchilla 2a. Cavia cobaya, Guinea pig
2b. Lagomys alpinus, pika 3a. Cercolabes villosus, Brazil porcupine 3b.
See 16 [mistake of the engraver] 4. Hystrix cristatus, European
porcupine 5. Halamys caffer, Cape jerboa 6. Mus sylvaticus,
field mouse 7. Mus rattus, black rat 8. Mus musculus, common
mouse 9. Cricetus vulgaris, hamster 10. Myoxus glis, dormouse 11.
Arctomys alpinus, marmot 12, 13. Pteromys volucella, flying squirrel 14.
Sciurus carolinensis, grey squirrel 15. Sciurus maximus, Malabar
squirrel 16. Lutra vulgaris, European otter 17. Talpa europwa, European
mole 18. Erinaceus europwus, European hedgehog |