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THE GREAT ANT-EATER. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Body covered with hair. 



Small mouth: long cylindric tongue. 



No teeth. 



Pennant. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Greyifli brown Ant-Eater, with very long fnout, extremely long bufliy 

 tail, and a black band above the fhoulders. 



Great Ant-Eater. 



Pennant. Hiji. Sluadr. -p. 507. 

 Le Tamanoir. 



Buffon. \Q. p. 141. /)/. 29. ] 



TH E • curious genus Myrmecophaga, or Ant-Eater, is ftrikingly dif- 

 tinguifhed from moft other quadrupeds, not only by the general fhape 

 and appearance, but alio by the total want of teeth ; a particularity which 

 takes place in no other quadrupeds -yet known, except thofe of the genus 

 Manis. There are however, according to the obfervations of Monf. BroufTonet, 

 certain bones not unlike teeth, fituated in the gullet or cefophagus of the Ant- 

 Eater. 



The 



