EDENTATE BEASTS. 27 



Tribe 2. TAMANDUINA. 



Skull elongate, slender ; nose very long, slender. Brain-case elon- 

 gate, narrow. Neck elongate, formed of elongate vertebrae. 

 Eibs strong, rather dilated on the outer side behind. Tail conical, 

 prehensile. Toes 4 — 4 ; the two middle front ones large. 



2. TAMANDUA, Gray, Cat. Carniv. dc. p. 391. 



1. Tamandua bivittata, Gray, Cat. Carniv. dc. p. 391. 

 M. tamandua, Blainv. Osteogr. t. (skeleton, ^). 



Var. 1. Opisthomelas. The sides and hinder part ofhacTi to the base 



of the tail blacJc. 



40 a. Animal, stuffed. Dorsal streak broad to loins. 



Brazils. Presented by Lieut. Mawe, R.N. 



40 b. Animal, stuffed. Dorsal streak narrow to the middle of the 

 back. 

 Brazils. 



40 c. Animal, stuffed ; half-grown. Back grey-washed. 

 733 c. Skeleton of " c." 

 S. America. Zool. Soc. 



40 d. Animal, stuffed ; young. Back greyish. 

 Brazils. Zool. Soc. 54, 12, 6, 2. 



40 e. Animal, unstuffed. 



Brazils, Orinoco. Parzudaki. 44, 5, 13, 45. 



40 r. Animal, stuffed. Back grizzled. 



Brazils. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



40 q. Animal, unstuffed ; young. Colour rather diffused. 

 Brazils. 44, 5, 14, 30. 



Var. 2. Brown or blackish, the parts that are ivhite in the other 

 varieties being only rather paler or indistinctly seen. 



40 m. Animal, not stuffed. Pale brown. Back rather darker, grizzled. 

 S. America. 50, 5, 24, 1. 



40 n. Animal, stuffed ; yellowish. Back blackish, brown-grizzled. 

 BrazHs. 45, 9, 18, 9. 



40 o. Animal, not stuffed ; adult. Blackish-grizzled. Head, neck, 

 and legs paler. 

 Brazils. 



40 p. Animal, not stuffed; young. Blackish-grizzled on the head, 

 neck, and limbs. 

 Brazils. 



Var. 3. Opistholeuca. Bump to the middle of the bach white. 



Tamandua tetradactyla, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 246, t. xliii. 

 40/. Animal, unstuffed; adult. Streak of back continued to the 

 white rump. Head and body, 26 in. Tail, 22 in. 

 New Grenada. 50, 7, 8, 39. 



