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the appearance of being uniformly straw colour, with a 

 mantle or covering over the belly, sides, crupper, upper 

 part of the thighs, and upper end of the tail, of the dark 

 colour, held on the body by means of shoulder-straps of 

 the same colour. It seems nearest to the brown belly 

 variety of the Table. The name Ursine Ant-eater on the 

 plate might be retained if the specimen should seem to 

 demand a specific separation, which, when the known 

 varieties of the Cagouare of D'Azara are considered, it 

 hardly seems to do. 



This drawing was made some years ago by Howitt, from 

 a stuffed specimen exhibited in London ; if we refer to 

 the known peculiarities of the feet of these animals, it is 

 easy to suppose that the specimen was placed on the toes 

 of the hind feet by mistake of the .stuffer, and that the 

 animal was in fact a plantigrade. If this be a variety 

 of Cagouare, the end of the tail it may be concluded would 

 be denuded as in that species. Again, the position of the 

 fore feet was in all probability forced and unnatural, as 

 both the large species before noticed walk in a very awk- 

 ward manner on the sides of the paws, with all the claws 

 turned inward. We have little confidence, therefore, in 

 the drawing, except so far as it represents the superficies 

 of the specimen, the peculiarity of which is probably re- 

 ferable to accidental or permanent variety. 



Krusenstern, in his voyage round the world, figures a 

 new species, or a variety of the Cagouare. The fur is uni- 

 formly brown, deeper at the end of the muzzle and extre- 

 mity of the paws ; the cheeks are bright, with a long trian- 

 gular brown spot round the eye ; the tail is yellow, rather 

 shorter than the body, with eleven annuli of a dark brown 

 colour. 



The figure we have engraved, under the title of the Ta- 

 mandua annulated variety ? seems likely to be the same as 

 that indicated by the circumnavigator, differing principally 



