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paddled fifteen miles and back. We followed the shores, 

 going and coming, and secured eight specimens of the Three- 

 Toed Sloth, 1 the one with a brown saddle-mark of short 

 hair in the middle of its back. 



We found them in the tops of low trees at the water's 

 edge, spread-eagled on the outer branches, or hanging upside 



Sanborn, Photo., N. Y. Zoological Park. 



TWO-TOED SLOTH. 



down, but always eating leaves. They did not know what it 

 was to " take alarm," and try to escape. Judging by the awful 

 deliberation of those that we saw in motion, I estimated that 

 a really swift sloth could travel half a mile in twenty-four 

 hours, if not side-tracked. 



1 Brad'ij-pus tri-dac'ty-lu.s. 



