M < Tl HK III. 73, 



shorter than tin- body. It gTOWl i<> lh l<-:i:jih of 

 lour or five feet, <r even more. Tin- other specie* 

 or four-lord Pangolin, tin- M. t- ; r.tdaetyl 

 Limurus, is \<r\ ( los.lv allied tu tin- pi-ending, 

 Itut i- <>f a ratlin- lon-rr or more sender shape, 

 \\ith only four claws uii all the feet ; and tin- tail 

 i. ral)l\ lon.m-r than the body. Its man- 

 arc >imilar to ilm-i <!' tlu- pi < -r diiii; kiiul, 

 and it> size scarcely infs-rior. 



Tin- n<-xt genus which \vo .shall attend to, is 

 that o Myrmecophaga, or Ant-Eat .IT. It is distin- 

 guished, like that of Manis, !>y h.ivinLj the mouth 

 thrn< d into tlic tonn of a snout, and perfectly 

 destitute of teeth, < -\ccpt that, very d'-ep at the 

 ijack part of the mouth, an .said to be situ; 

 (according to th Camper) a pair 



of small bony promin which may be sup- 



posed to act as a kind of grinders: the tongue, as 

 in the former gem :^, round, and 



dlr of bei. udrd to a Ljreat distance 



from the tip of the snout. The hod ,t in 



one <>r two species lately discoveivd, i> covered 

 with hair. The sp, ;irt . n ,,t nu- 



merous. The chief is th< : Ant-eater, or 



M. Jubata of Linnxus, a qua- ..TV eon- 



