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dry, but will by choice dip them in water, if it happens to be in the way. 

 Has a peculiarity in drinking, as well by lapping like the dog, as by 

 fucking like the horfe. 



THE C O A T I M O N D I. 



ITS fnout fomewhat refembles that of the hog, but is greatly elon- 

 gated; the neck and the body are long, the fur (hort, the eyes fmaU, 

 the upper jaw an inch longer than the lower, and the fnout, which is 

 moveable in every divifion, turning up at the end. Sets up on the 

 hind legs, and in this poficion, with both paws, carries the food to its 

 mouth. Length from nofe to tail eighteen inches. 



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Is very apt to eat its own tail, which is fomecimes longer than its body 

 (fome of the monkey kinds do the fame, and feem to feel no pain in 

 wounding a part of the body fo remote from the centre of circulation). 

 Of playful Q.ualities, and indifcriminate appetite ; at liberty will purfue 

 poultry, and deftroy every living thing ic can conquer; tnough playful 

 with its keeper, yet obilinate againft receiving inftrudlion: neither 

 threats nor carefTes can induce it to practife any arts to which it is not 

 naturally inclined. When it (Iceps, rolls itfelf up in a lump, and fo 

 continues often fourteen or fifteen hours together. Inhabits Brazil. 



THE ANT-EATERS 



HAVE been claffed, by Mr. Buffbn, into the larger tamandua (our 

 ant-bear), the fmaller tamandua, and the ant-eater. The ant- 

 btrar is four feet long, from the fnout to the tail ; legs fiiort, armed with 

 four ftrong claws ; tail long and tufted ; the animal often throws it on its 

 back like the fquirrel. The tamandua is eighteen inches long, the tail 

 without hair, trails on the ground as the animal moves. The ant-eater 

 is not above feven inches from the fnout to the tail. The two former are 

 of a brown dulky colour, this a beautiful reddilh, mixed with yellow. 

 No. 24. ' Bb Though 



