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male is most singular, and looks exactly as if it had been 

 stamped with an oval- shaped iron, very hot along the centre, 

 so as to burn away the hair nearly to the skin, and blacken 

 it. Then, if the iron be not quite so hot on either part of 

 the centre, it would press down the fur and turn it brown. 

 Lastly, supposing the iron to be only hot enough towards the 

 edges to scorch the fur slightly, we shall produce a fair 

 imitation of the mark impressed by nature upon the other- 

 wise long, and hay -like fur. 



The central line then is black, and very decidedly marked. 

 On either side, the fur is still short, but of a creamy colour, 

 and it fades by short bands of brown into the grey hue of 

 the fur. 



Stedman says that the animal is popularly called the 

 Loggurree or Sheep- Sloth, and that the names Ai, or Heeay, 

 are given to it on account of its plaintive cry. The natives 

 seemed to be very much afraid of its claws, and the first 

 specimen which was brought to him had been deprived of all 

 its feet, so as to reiader it harmless. 



The illustrations are taken from a specimen in Waterton's 



