THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM 



principal existing forms of the order, which is a very old 

 one, at one time numerous and comprising many gigantic 

 forms now extinct. The great anteater, or antbear, of 

 Brazil, two mounted specimens and a skeleton of which are 

 exhibited, is one of the largest of existing edentates. The 

 pangolin, or scaly anteater of the Old World, with overlap- 

 ping, horny scales, the four-toed anteater, the yellow taman- 

 dua and the three-toed and two-toed sloths are shown here, 

 as well as the six- and nine-banded armadillos and the aard 

 vark, or antbear, of South Africa. 



In the same case are exhibited the Rodents or gnawing 

 animals. These comprise the largest order of existing 

 mammals, and there are many different families and 

 genera. Among the specimens are squirrels and chip- 

 munks, the South American capybara, largest of living 

 rodents, the paca of South America, the pocket gopher, 

 named from the pockets in its cheeks, the spermophile, 

 muskrat, porcupine, the vischacha of South America, and 

 others. 



On the north wall at this point, horns of the greater kudu, 

 a rare African antelope, are exhibited, below which are 

 some fine examples of scrimshaw work on the teeth of 

 whales, an art practised by sailors in the days of whale fish- 

 ing. A walrus tusk in the same case is similarly engraved 

 by Indians of the Northwest Coast. On the same wall just 

 beyond is an exhibit of tusks of the mammoth, with ancient 

 figures of this extinct relative of the elephant, also teeth of 

 the mastodon and of the modern elephant. 



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