2. TAMANUUA. 391 



Myrmecophaga tridactyla, Linn. S. N. ed. 10, p, 35. 



Myrmecophag'a sciurea, Pallas, Misc. p. 60. 



Tama noir, Buffon, H. N. x. p. 144, t. 29; S'upp. iii. t. 55; Cuvier, 



Oss. Foss. V. p. 97, t. 9. 

 Great Ant-eater, Peun. 



Hah. South. America, La Plata. 



Anatomi/.—Hee Owen, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 22 ; Ann. & Mag. N. H. 

 xix. p. 59 ; Trans. Zool. Soc. iv. p. 117; Rapp, Edent. t. 4G (ske- 

 leton) ; Cuvier, Oss. Foss. v. t. 9 (skeleton). 



b. Arboreal. Tail conical, prehensile ; feet claspinr/ the branches. 



2. TAMANDUA. 



Toes 5 . 4. Palatine and pteiygoid bones united beneath the 

 nasal canal for the whole length. Fur of body and tail short, bristly. 

 Tail tapering, prehensile. Skull long, slender ; nose nearly as long 

 as brain-case (Rapp, t. 5). Living on trees. 

 Tamandua, Gray, P. Z. S. I860, p. 383. 



The tongue (figured by Rapp, Edent. t. 6. f. 4) is elongate, cylin- 

 drical, rather tapering, covered with rings of acute tubercles, and 

 with a globular end. 



1. Tamandua bivittata. (Collared Tamandua.) B.M. 



Head, shoulders, fore limbs, outside of hind limbs, and middle of 

 the tail white ; a stripe from each side of the neck over the shoulder 

 and remaining part black. " Tail but little longer than the body ; 

 its terminal third scaly." — Turner. 

 Var. Black less intense. 



^Ivi'mecophaga tridactyla, Linn. S. N. p. 51. 



Mvrmecophaga tetradactvla, Linn. S. JV. p. 52; Happ, Edent. p. 14, 



t. 3 b, t. 5 (skull). 

 Mymiycopbaga tamandua, Cuv. ; Desm. Mamni. p. 374 ; Blainv. 



Osteof/r. t. (skeleton). 

 Tamandua tetradactjda, Lesson ; Oray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. p. 191 ; 



Gerrard, Cat. Bones B. M. p. 288; Turner, P. Z. H. 1851. p. 218 ; 



Besni. N. Diet. H. N. xii. p. 107 ; Masstnann, Descr. 1823, t. 2 



(skull). 

 Myrmecophaga bivittata, Desm. A\ Diet. H. N. xii. p. 107. 

 Myrmecophaga nigra, Geoff. : Desm. N. Diet. H. X. xii. p. 107. 

 Myrmecophaga myosura, Pallas, Miscell. p. (54. 

 Myrmecophaga ursiua, Griff. A. K. p. 16. 

 MyTuiecophaga crispiis, Rilpp. 3L/s. Senck. iii. p. 179. 

 Tamandua bi^-ittata, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 384. 

 Tamandua, Buffon, H. X. x. p. 144; Cuvier, Oss. Foss. v. p. lOL 

 Middle Ant-eater, Penn. 



Hah. Brazil ; Paraguay. 



Myrmecophaga annulata (Desm. Mamm. p. 374, from Kruscn- 

 stcrn. Voyage, t. fig., altered Griffith, A. K. t. 144) and M. annulata 

 et M. striata (Shaw, from Buff. H. N. Supp. iii. t. 5G) are only a 

 Coati {Nasua) disfigured. 



