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visible only in certain angles of light ; some 

 yellow, with a black band ; some banded, with 

 the crupper and belly black, and some entirely 

 blackish. We do not know as yet whether 

 these differences are specific. 



The Two-toed Ant-eater (Myrm. Didactyla, Lin.), 

 Buff. X. xxx. 



As big as a Rat, with woolly fur, yellow, with 

 a red dorsal line ; tail prehensile, naked at the 

 end ; two nails only before, one of which is very 

 large, and four behind *. 



The Pangolins (Manis, Lin.), commonly called Scaly 

 Ant-eaters, 



Are destitute of teeth ; have the tongue very ex- 

 tensible, and subsists on Ants and Termites, pro- 

 perly speaking; but their body, their limbs, and 

 tail, are covered with thick trenchant scales, dis- 

 posed like tiles, and which they raise in rolling 

 themselves up into a ball when they defend them- 

 selves from an enemy. All their feet have five toes. 

 Their stomach is slightly divided in the middle. 

 They have no caecum. They are found only in the 

 ancient continent. 



* The Myrmecophaga Tridactyla, L. Seba. pi. F., is only a 

 Tamandua ill-figured. The M. Striata, Shaw, Buff. Supp. III. 

 pi; lvi. is a Coati disfigured by the stuffer. 



