Lect. IV.] PAPERS ON THE EDENTATA. Ill 



Mammalia," Proc. Zool. Soc, Dec. 14, 1880, pp. 649-662, the 

 Edentata are noticed. 



Dr Miirie, F.L.S., F.G.S., &c., amongst liis niinierous and valuable 

 contributions to the anatomy of the Mammalia, gives us a good 

 contribution to the anatomy of this order in his memoir on " The 

 Habits, Structure, and Relations of the Three-banded Armadillo {ToJy- 

 peutes conurus, Is. Geoff)," Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., vol. xxx. 

 pp. 71-132, plates 20-26. 



A description of the shoulder-girdle and sternum of various 

 Edentata is given by the writer in his memoir on those parts of the 

 skeleton in the publications of the Ray Society for 1868, i^p. 199-207, 

 plate 21-23. 



Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A., F.R.S., Sec. Z.S., who has 

 earned the good-will and gratitude of all zoologists, gives, in his 

 reports on the additions made from time to the Society's mena- 

 gerie, some very useful contributions to our knowledge of the 

 Edentata. 



1. The Cape Ant-bear {Orycteropus capensus) Proc. Zool. Soc, June 

 ^4, 1869, pp. 431-432 (with woodcut). This is said to have been 

 ^'purchased on the 18th of Jiuie for .£150, and believed to be the 

 first specimen of this singular Edentate ever brought to Europe 

 alive. This animal had been purchased at Port Elizabeth, Algoa 

 Bay, and brought to this country by the captain of one of the 

 Union Steamship Company's vessels. It fed Avell, principally on 

 raw meat pounded small, in the same maimer as the American 

 Ant-eaters {Myrmecophaga juhata), two specimens of which, 

 obtained in October and November 1867, are still living in good 

 health in the Society's menagerie." 



2. In the Secretary's Report, read on the 1st of ISTovember 1870, 

 reference is made to the only other species of Cajie Ant-eater 

 known at present. 



"A male specimen of the Ethiopian Ant-bear (Orycterojnis 

 (ethiopicus of Sundevall). This animal has been placed in the gar- 

 dens, in company with the Cape Ant-bear {0. capeyisis), received 18tli 

 June 1869. The two animals, although both males, live sociably 

 together, and enable a comparison to be made between the external 

 appearances of those two disputed species." 



" Duvernoy has already enlarged upon the differences between the 



