106 MAMMALIA. BRUTA. Ant-eater. 



longer; and on the fides of the body it is two inches and a half long, and as hard as that of a wild 

 boar : It is of a mixed deep brown and dirty white colour: The length of the body and head is three 

 feet eleven inches. Sin. Buff. v. 347. 



144 4. Ta-mandua.— 4. Myrmecophaga tetradaclyla. 4. 



Has four toes before, and five behind ; with a naked tail. Schreber, ii. 205. tab. lxvi. 



Ant-eater, with a very long fnout, having four toes before and five behind, and the tail almoft 

 naked. Briff. quad. 26. — Tamandua. Sm. Buff. v. 344. 



Inhabits South America. — Goes out only in the night, and fleeps during the day: When irritated, 

 feizes on a ftick, or other object, with his fore claws, and fights on end, fitting on his hind legs : The 

 extremity of the tail is naked and prehenfile, by means of which he is enabled to fufpend himfelf from 

 the branches of trees : Has a black ftripe on the breaft and fide. 



145 5. Five-toed Ant-eater. — Myrmecophaga pentadaSlyla. 



Has five toes on the fore paws ; and a long fiat tail entirely covered with hair. 

 Sm. Buff. v. 350. pi. cxlix. , 



Striped ant-eater. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 731. 



The head is thick, and the upper jaw and fnout are very long, having the mouth placed far from 

 the extremity ; the eyes are very fmall ; the ears fmall, rounded, and fringed above with large black 

 hairs ; the hair on the whole body is long ; on the back, head, and legs, it is tawny, and ftriped 

 with black or dufky, and on the belly it is of a dirty white colour ; the tail is wholly covered with 

 long tawny yellow hair, barred acrofs with rings of a blackifh tinge : The body, from the tip of the 

 nofe to the rump, is thirteen inches long, and ten inches in height ; and the tail is feven inches 

 long. 



14-6 I 8, — Befides this animal, which the Count de Buffon fuppofes only a variety of the Tamandua, he 



mentions another from the information of Mr de la Borde, under the name of Little Tamanoir, 

 which has whitifh hair about two inches long, weighs above fixty pounds, has no teeth, and very 

 long claws ; having the fame manners with the other animals of the genus, feeding only during the 

 night, and frequenting the great forefts : But this account is by no means fufficient to afcertain whe.- 

 ther it be a diftinct fpecies, or, if only a variety, to what fpecies it fhould be referred. 



147 6. Cape Ant-eater.— 5. Myrmecophaga capcnfts. 5. 



Has four claws on the fore paws ; a long fnout ; large pendent ears ; and a tail, which 

 is fhorter than the body, and taper at the point. Pallas, Mifc. zool. n. 6. 



Inhabits the country at the Cape of Good Hope. — This animal is much larger than the other fpe- 

 cies of the genus, fo that Kolbcn compares it to the fize of a hog, and afferts that it weighs a hun- 

 dred pounds : It burrows in the ground, fleeps during the day, and only goes abroad at night. 



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