arson Collected Hystrix africae australis (Porcupine) Geaus species - Hystrix africee austrolis Subfam - Hystricinae Family - Hystricidae Super fam - Hystricoidea Suborder - HYSTRICOMORPHA Order - RODENTIA EX. Specimen - KM-10,014 ♂, 14 Nov. 1925, Sandfontein, S.W. Africa, 4100', Shortridge, HB - 770, TI-133, HF-100, Eou - 46. Description - Head - Blunt, long coarse black whiskers, brown head with course hairs, long up to 12" or so, white at tip port, ears small oval, eyes small Body - shoulders with dark brown burble, guills white at bases, posterior part of back with long guills landed white and dark brown, shelt tipped, quills extending from rump, hollowed and open at end attaches by a thin stem, thus rattl when they walk, belowus guills black and short, red around anuu. Fore feet - 4 toes with coarse short stumgy claws, a vestigial claw on side of ft but no toe, pads dark, bottom feet and legs dark. Tail - not usual lower guill, a blunt short extensin. full of rattling guills. Hindfeet - 5 toes with Claws, pads black, claws light colored, quills dark,