LECTURE II. 1 



I thr l><>cly is of a thick shape, the fore-legs very 

 ; the hind' liorter: the feet are vn-y 



small, hut they are each armed uith three most 

 >sively strong and large claws, of a slightly 

 curved form, and sharp-pointed: the- head i^ Miiall: 

 t, \vith a rounded or blunt Miout : the 

 II, black, and round: the ears flat, round- 

 ed, lying (lose to the head, and not ill resembling 

 of Monkeys. The general colour of the 

 animal is a greyish brown, and the hair is extreme- 

 ly coarse, moderately long, and very thickly covers 

 the whole body and limbs. A remarkable character 

 as to colour in this animal is a broad patch on the 

 upper part of the back of a reddish or ycllou isli 

 brown, marked on each side by several black 

 spots, and down the middle by a \eiy COO 

 cuous long black stripe. In the young animals 

 this stripe is but very obscurely, if at all, visible. 

 The I^adiiiL; or specific character of the animal 

 in all tin- ' sg furnished with three 



claws; which affords an ea>\ and n aK ; 

 distinction between this species and th< / , >-toctl 

 Sloth or Bradypus didact \lus-, which is of .similar 

 and COnsid< i-ibly alli< d to it in form, bir 



