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elegant animal. l\ larger than a squirrel, 



.UK! measuring little more than seven inches from 

 tin- HOM- to the tail, u hich is longrr than the whole 

 body and head, and i> also ttroBgly prehensile: 

 the snout is slightly bent, rather sharpem d, and 

 of a tubular structure; the h-^s short, with the 

 fore feet furnished with only two claws on each, 

 I. ut of excessive size in proportion to the limb. 

 The hind-feet have each f'<>ur cla\\-, of mode-rate 

 size. The colour of the animal is an elegant pale 

 yellow-brown, and the hair is beautifully undulated 

 or waved. This species, which is called the two- 

 toed Ant-Eater, Myrmecophuga dldactyla of Lin- 

 iKrus i< a native of South America, where it re- 

 sides on trees, and lives on insects, and particularly 

 on a species of Ants, which form their nests on 

 the trees it frequents. An excellent figure of tin* 

 species of Ant-KaUr has been given by Edwards, 

 in his Gleanin- \ itural History. 



Tin- BCiea "t Ant-F.ater which I .shall 



men: n nati\e of Au>t rala.sia or New Hol- 



land, and di tiers from all the rest in being covered, 

 not \\ith hair, hut with strong and ^-harp quills or 

 spines, .similar to tho>cof a Porcupine, but shorter 

 in proportion. This highly curious species usually 



