NATURAL HISTORY. :>*\ 



of his head and body is black and white ; this animal 

 turns his tail up on his back, and covers his whole bo- 

 dy with it, when he is inclined to sleep, or wishes to 

 shelter himself from the rain or the heat of the sun. 

 The long hair of his tail and of his body is not round 

 in all its extent : it is flat towards the end, and feels 

 like dry grass. He waves his tail frequently and has- 

 tily when he is irritated, but it hangs down when he 

 is composed, and he sweeps the ground with it as he 

 goes. The tamancfir walks slowly : his feet seems less 

 calculated to walk than to climb, and to fasten round 

 bodies ; and he holds a branch or a stick so fast, that 

 it is impossible to snatch either from him. 



The second of these animals is that which the Ame- 

 ricans called only temandiia, and to whom we shall 

 give this name: he is much smaller than the tama- 

 noir : he is not above eighteen inches from the extre- 

 mities of the snout to the rump : his head is five inch- 

 es long, his snout crooked, and flat and long below. 

 He has a tail ten inches long, without hair at the end: 

 his ears are erect and about an inch long, his tongue 

 is round, arid eight inches long, placed in a sort of 

 gutter or hollow canal within the lower jaw : his legs 

 are not above four inches long : his feet are of the same 

 form, and have the same number of claws as those of 

 the tamanoir. He climbs up, and holds a branch or a 

 stick fast, like the tamanoir, and his march is equally 

 slow. He does not cover himself with his tail, which 

 cannot shelter him, being almost bare ; the hair of the 

 fore-part is shorter than that of the tamanoir; when he 

 sleeps he hides his head under his neck and his fore legs. 



The third of these animals is that which the natur- 

 alists of Guiana call ouatiriouaou, unto which we ap- 



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