114 THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



attention to a plate (ii.) and description in Sir John Talbot 

 Dillon's "Travels through Spain," published in London in 

 1780, of a stuffed specimen in the Cabinet of Natural History 

 at Madrid. 



The great ant-bear from Buenos Ayres, the Myrmecophaga Jubata of 

 Linnaeus, called by the Spaniards Osa Palmeray was alive at Madrid in 

 1776, and is now stuffed and preserved in this cabinet. The people who 

 brought it from Buenos Ayres say it differs from the ant-eater, which only 

 feeds on emmets and other insects ; whereas this would eat flesh, when cut 

 in small pieces, to the amount of four or five pounds. From the snout to 

 the extremity of the tail this animal is two yards in length, and his height 

 is about two feet. The head very narrow, the nose long and slender. The 

 tongue is so singular that it looks more like a worm, and extends above 

 sixteen inches. His body is covered with long hair of a dark brown, with 

 white stripes on the shoulders ; and when he sleeps he covers his body 

 with his tail. 



Crowds flocked to the Gardens to see this strange creature — 

 almost as great an attraction as was the hippopotamus on its 

 arrival. Then, the other animals were feigned to be jealous of 

 Obaysch; now, Punch (October 22, 1853) represented him as a 

 deserted favourite: 



A HOWL FROM THE HIPPOPOTAMUS. 



I'm a hippish Hippopotamus, and don't know what to do, 



For the public is inconstant and a fickle one too ; 



It smiled once upon me, and now I'm quite forgot. 



Neglected in my bath, and left to go to pot. 



And it's oh ! oh ! out of joint is my nose, 

 It's a nasty Ant-eater to whom everyone goes. 



He is my abhorrence, I think him quite a hum, 

 He's worse than that marine Vi-va-ri-um ; 

 He beats the Knowsley beastesses* of the Derby dilly,t 

 And makes the baby Elephant look small and silly. 



And it's oh ! oh ! pity my woes ! 



An American Ant-eater has put out my nose. 



A Gujerat lion was presented by the Rajah of Jahnuggur ; 

 and the presence of this animal in the Menagerie dissipated the 

 belief that Asiatic lions were maneless. From the Guide of 1858- 



* The eland herd bequeathed by Lord Derby. See ante. 

 f So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides 

 The Derby dilly carrying three insides. 



Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin, No. xxiv. 



