North American porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum (Canada porcupine, Hystrix dorsata). Illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1825.

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