260 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



eaters is simple, and muscular toward the pyloric; 

 the canal is moderate, and without caecum *. 



They live in the hot and temperate parts of the 

 New World, and bring but one at a birth, which 

 they carry on the back. 



The Tamanoir (Myrmecophaga Jubata), Buff. X. xxix. and 



Supp. III. LV. 



Is upwards of four feet long, with four nails 

 before, and five behind ; the tail is furnished 

 with long hairs, ^directed vertically above and 

 below ; the fur is gray-brown, with an oblique 

 black band bordered with white on each 

 shoulder. It is the largest of the Ant-eaters. 

 It is said that it can defend itself against the 

 Jaguar. It inhabits low places ; does not mount 

 trees, and walks slowly. 



The Tamandua (Myrmecophaga Tamandua, Cuv. Myrm. 

 Tetradactyla et Tridactyla, L.), Schreb. LXVI. 



With the form and feet of the preceding, but not 

 more than half its size ; the tail has the hairs 

 scanty, is prehensile and denuded at the end, 

 and enables the animal to hang by it to the 

 branches of trees. There are some yellowish- 

 gray, with an oblique band on the shoulder, 



* Daubenton has made known, in the M. Didactylis, two very 

 small appendices which may, in strictness, be taken for csecums. 

 I have satisfied myself that they do not exist in the Tamandua. 



