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 THE TWO-TOED SLOTH. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



No Cutting Teeth in cither jaw. 



Canine Teeth obtufe, fingle, longer than the grinderSj placed oppofite. 



Grinders five on each fide, obtufe. 



Fore Legs much longer than tlie hind : Claws very long. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Sloth with two toes on the fore feet. 



L' Unau. Btiffon. 13. p. 34. pi. i. 



Two-toed Sloth. Pennant. Hiji. ^ladr. p. 496. 



THE common or three-toed Sloth, the moll helplefs and deformed of 

 all quadrupeds, is peculiar to the hotteft parts of America, and is 

 principally found in Brafil. The fpecies here reprefented is a native of the 

 fame parts of America, but is faid to have been alfo found, tlfo' rarely, in 

 India. In its general appearance it is fcarce lefs uncouth than the common 

 Ipecies, but is not fo extremely flow in its motions, being able, according to 

 the Count de BufFon, to afcend and defcend from a tree feveral times in a 

 day J whereas the three-toed fpecies with difficulty performs that operation in 

 a whole day, and can fcarce crawl fome hundred yards in the Ipace of many 

 hours 



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