Zp^i Zoological Society. 



Although the flanks show a sliglitly darker reflection in certain di- 

 rections of the hght, there is no trace of the mark which runs across 

 the shoulder. 



On referring to the figure, in Krusenstern's Voj'age (tab. 6 e), 

 on which M. Desmarest founded his Myrmecophaga annulata, I find 

 it to be a very excellent representation of a Coati-mondi, probably 

 the brown species. The head is bent downwards, the tongue pro- 

 truded, and curved beneath the left fore-foot ; from under the further 

 side of the foot there comes a small twig of a tree, which, if it were 

 not branched, would look like a continuation of the tongue. But 

 the figure published in Griffith's translation of the ' Regne Animal' 

 is not so easy to interpret. The general form of the body is more 

 like that of an Ant-eater, though rather too long and slender ; the 

 tapering head and the dark stripe from the end of the muzzle to the 

 eye remind one of the Myrmecobius, which was not known until 

 several years afterwards ; the tail is just such as a Coati-mondi might 

 have supplied. The figure is said to have been drawn from a stuffed 

 specimen, but the authors do not state where the specimen existed, 

 and possibly may never have seen it. 



Cuvier asserts, with much probability, that the animal from which 

 Buffon took his figure of the Tamandua was made up of the skin of a 

 Coati-mondi, to which striped markings had been artificially applied. 



Cyclothurus, Gray. 



Fore-feet with two toes, the outer one much the larger ; "the pala- 

 tines only meet below for two-thirds of their length, and the bony 

 canal of the nares there terminates, the pterygoids not meeting, but 

 presenting only two long parallel and little prominent crests." 



C. DIDACTYLUS. 



Dr. Lund inserts in his lists of fossil species one which he has 

 named Myrmecophaga gigantea, but I have seen no representation of 

 any portion of the animal among the figures published. 



Fam. 4. MANiDiE. 



The intermaxillary bones small, having ascending processes run- 

 ning upwards and backwards ; each encloses a separate incisive fora- 

 men ; the maxillary bones short, toothless, their malar processes pro- 

 jecting backwards, outwards and downwards ; the palatine bones 

 much spread out in front, and with distinct posterior palatine fora- 

 mina ; the malar and lacrymal bones wanting, but a large lacrymal 

 opening ; the alisphenoid bone much reduced ; the zygoma deep, thin, 

 concave exteriorly, and pushed downwards to the anterior and inferior 

 angle of the squamous portion ; the occipital condyles prominent, 

 oblique, the precondyloid foramina at some distance anterior to them. 



This family consists of but one genus, containing several well- 

 marked species. 



Manis, Linnaeus. 



In characterizing the species of this genus, I give the number of 

 scales in each transverse row, instead of the number of longitudinal 



