50 Ant-Eaters. 



rally making a new resting-place for each day, 

 and the keeper tells us that, if by chance its food- 

 tin is left in its cage at night, it will certainly be 

 buried in the morning. 



Ant-eaters apparently live and thrive well in 

 confinement, those at the Zoo being quite old inha- 

 bitants, the great ant-eater, a male, having lived in 

 its present quarters since April 24, 1883, and the 

 aard-vark, a female, since October 30, 1884. 



