DCHP-3

prickly beaver

Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the American porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum.

Quotations

1824
Our Indian Guides travelling with their little dogs who at one time raised their puny voices some distance before & a deer or a Bear was anticipated, but it turned out a Porcupine the first of these prickly Beavers we have met with. . . .