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Piscium,' no. li. p. 556, where we find a general account which 

 includes both Manatees, American and African, and Dugongs. 

 Linnfeus, however, puts " in mare americano " as locality, and this 

 would fix the name on the common American species. 

 Type locality : "West Indies. 



Genus 7. Brabypus. p. 34. 



Two species. Type by selection : B. tridactylus. Selected by 

 llliger, who at the same time eliminated B. didactyliis as a 

 C'holoepus, 



Species : 



1. TRIDACTYLUS. p. 34. Bradypus. 



First Linnaean reference : Syst. Nat. (6) p. 3. 

 Two references : Seba, Thes. i. t. 33. f. 2, and Marcgr. Bras. 

 221, of which the first may be taken as primary. 

 Type locality (suggested): Surinam. 



2. DIDACTYLUS. p. 35. Cholcepus. 



First Liiniean reference : Syst. Nat. (6) p. 3. 

 One refei-ence only : Seba, Thes. i. t. 34. 

 Type locality (suggested) : Surinam, 



Genus 8. Myrmecophaga. p. 35. 



Three species. Type by elimination : M. trida.ctyla, M. didactyla 

 having been taken out as Cyclopes and M. ' tetradactyla as 

 Taniandua. 



Species : 



1, DIDACTYLA. p. 35. Cy dopes. 

 Based on specimen. Fuller description Mus. Ad. Frid. p. 8. 

 No locality, but as an identification is made, through Syst. 



Nat. (6) p. 8, with Seba, pi. 37. fig. 3, we may take as the 

 Type locality : Surinam. 



2. TRiDACTYLA. p. 35. Myrmecophciga. 

 Linnean reference : Syst. Nat. (6) p. 8, where we find " Ray 



Quadr. 241. Marcgr. bras. 225." 



Ray's account simply refers to, and is based on, that given by 

 Marcgrave of the Tamandua guacu, the Great Anteater, of which 

 he gives a recognizable figure. 



The Great Anteater, commonly known as Myrmecophaga juhata, 

 should therefore, as pointed out in 1901, be known as M. tri- 

 dactyla. 



Type locality : Pernambuco. 



See Thos. American Naturalist, xxxv. p. 143, 1901. 



