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 THE THREE-TOED SLOTH. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



No Cutting-Teeth in either jaw. 



Canine Teeth obtufe, fingle, longer than the grinders, placed oppofite» 



Fore- Legs much longer than the hind ; Claws very long. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Sloth with three claws on all the feet. 

 Three-Toed Sloth. Naturalift's Mijcellany. pi. 5^ 

 Three-Toed Sloth. Venn. HIjl. Quad. 2. p. 240.. 

 L'Ai. Buff. Hijl. Nat. 13. 44. /. 5. 6. 



THE three-toed Sloth, a quadruped diftinguifhed above all others by the 

 extreme flownefs of its motions, has fo often been defcribed by writers 

 on natural hiftory, that a peculiar enumeration of its qualities might feem, 

 in a great degree, unneceflary. The account however given by Pifo, who 

 examined the living animal in its native regions, may not be unacceptable 

 to thofe who might wifh for the mofl: authentic information relative to fo 

 extraordinary a creature. 



It is of the fize (fays Pifo) of a middling dog, with an unpleafant look- 

 ing fnout, which is conftantly wet with faliva : the tail is very fhort ; the 



claws 



