TAMANDUA.—Tamdndua tetradactyla. 
just been detailed, and the creature seems to possess considerable grasping power in the 
toes of the fore-lmbs, being able to pick up a small object in its paws. Though not a 
fighter, it can defend itself right well by means of ae powerful sacl nanbantesat. and can 
not only strike with considerable violence, but when attacked by a dog or similar enemy, 
it clasps him in such a terrific gripe, that the half-suffocated animal is only too glad to be 
able to escape. 
The Ant-bear is said to make no burrow, but to content itself with the shade of its 
own plumy tail whenever it retires to rest. While sleeping, the creature looks very like 
a rough bundle of hay, thrown loosely on the ground, for the hair of the mane and 
tail is so long and so harsh that it ean h: urdly be recognised at the first glance for the 
veritable coat of a living aninal. The eye of this creature has a peculiar and indeseribably 
cunning expression, The Tamanoir is a native of Guinea, Brazil, and Paraguay. 
The TAMANDUA possesses an elongated head, like that of the tamanoir, but the skull is 
not so extraordinarily long as in that animal, and the hair is short over the entire body. 
Indeed, the Tamandua looks like a small specimen of the tamanoir, which has been clipped 
from its neck to the tip of its tail. The colour of this species is much hehter than that of 
the tamanoir, and a black stripe passes over each shoulder. In size it is comparatively 
small, measuring, when full-grown, barely three feet and a half in total length. 
It is a more active animal than the preceding species, and is a good climber of trees, 
which it ascends in search of the insects on which it feeds. The tail is long and tapering, 
and possesses something of the ar ee quality, though not so strongly as that of the 
little ant-eater, which will shortly be described. It is naked at the tip, but at the base 
is thickly covered with hair of the same short, coarse kind that is spread over the body. 
When young, its fur is a pale cinnamon. 
The LitrLe ANT-EATER is a truly curious animal, possessing many of the habits 
of the two preceding animals, together with several customs of its own. The head of 
this creature is comparatively short; its body is covered with fine silken fur, and its 
entire length does not exceed twenty or twenty-one inches. The tail is well furred, 
excepting three inches of the under surface at the extremity, which is employed as the 
prehensile portion of that member, and is capable of sustaining the weight of the body 
