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refuses mealworms, so greedily eaten by almost 

 every menagerie animal from galago to Prevost 

 squirrel. Raw eggs, milk, and the intestines 

 of rabbits formed the daily vienu of one anteater ; 

 strips of raw beef with milk, ^%%, and arroivroot 

 nourished another ; beef and ^'g^ "melees ensemble" 

 supported a third, of which the writer recently 

 inquired at the Jardin d'Acclimatation. Not only will 

 these delicate beasts eat such food, but they thrive 

 upon it. Dr. Palin, on October 4th, 1867, presented 

 an anteater to the London collection ; although then 

 in poor condition, it lived fourteen years in the 

 menagerie on a manufactured diet, succumbing at 

 last, not to gastric troubles, but to inflammation of 

 the larynx, the thymus gland being also markedly 

 enlarged. Indeed, the throat rather than the stomach 

 would seem to be the calx Achillidis of the great 

 anteater ; for another individual which the Hon. L. 

 S. Sackville West presented to the Zoological 

 Gardens on September 7th, 1877, died four years 

 later from a severe cellulitis, caused perhaps by the 

 November fogs. Inflammation was found to have 

 set in around and within organs vital to the anteater 

 above other beasts — the great submaxillary glands 

 which secrete the all-important saliva. A fine 

 coloured model showing the macroscopic anatomy 

 of these structures will be found in one of the 

 new galleries of the Jardin des Plantes; while an 

 actual dissection of the neck and glands is preserved 



