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paddled fifteen miles and back. We followed the shores, 
going and coming, and secured eight specimens of the THREE- 
Torep Strotu,! the one with a brown saddle-mark of short 
hair in the middle of its back. 
We found them in the tops of low trees at the water’s 
edge, spread-eagled on the outer branches, or hanging upside 
Sanborn, Photo., N. Y. Zoological Park. 
TWO-TOED SLOTH. 
down, but always eating leaves. They did not know what it 
was to “take alarm,” and try toescape. Judging by the awful 
deliberation of those that we saw in motion, I estimated that 
a really swift sloth could travel half a mile in twenty-four 
hours, if not side-tracked. 
1 Brad’y-pus tri-dac'ty-lus. 
