ZOOLOGY. 



Genus-- BKADYPOT. 



Species-BRADYPVS STRIATUS; or, WEASEL 



SLOTH. 



Generic Character. — Bradypus, or Sloth ; number of the 

 claws uncertain ; four cutting teeth in front ; the 

 body elongated, covered with wool; ears bushy 

 and spreading ; the head flattened in front ; the 

 legs short and depressed; each foot armed with 

 long prehensile claws ; the general colour cine- 

 reouSj verging to a black i the form of thd molares 

 unknown. 



THE singular forms of the Wombach and the Koalo, 

 have already engaged our notice and attention in a 

 former part of the present work, and which being lately 

 discovered, have not been examined with that anatomical 

 attention to their structure which could reasonably have 

 been wished. The present animal bears a considerable 

 analogy to them, and also to the Weasel in its general 

 form, and is supposed to reside sometimes in trees, as 

 well as upon the ground, feeding upon insects, lavas of 

 Moths or Caterpillars, &c. It has been exhibited alive in 

 London, by Mr. Ken n rick, within the last few months, 

 (from which the drawing was taken) and is reported to have 

 been found in South America ; this fact may perhaps, how- 

 ever, require confirmation, as we have no doubt that at 

 present it may be considered as a new-discovered animal, 

 and undescribed by any author, ancient or modern. This 

 singular creature was about two feet in length, of a dark 

 colour of a cinereous cast of shade, black above and brown 

 below, the centre white, with three longitudinal black 

 stripes, the centre one thickened in the middle of the back, 

 the eyes surrounded with a white ring, very bright and 



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