DEATH OF THE ANT-BEAR 



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paring the skin, which, during ni\- journey through 

 Erythrca, excited nior<; interest than anything else I 

 carried. It was not really ilry till alter we had passc-d 

 Port Said, but eventually both it and the skeleton 

 reached home in perfect condition, being one of the very 

 few specimens that did so. 



A Dead Ant-Bear, or Aard Vark. 



