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tlog : the body is of a thick shape, the fore-legs very 

 long; the hinder far shorter: the feet are very 

 ^mall, but they are each armed with three most 

 excessively strong and large claws, of a slightly 

 curved form, and sharp-pointed: the head is small: 

 the face short, with a rounded or blunt snout ; the 

 eyes small, black, and round : the ears flat, round- 

 ed, lying close to the head, and not ill resembhng 

 those of Monkevs. The creneral colour of the 

 animal is a greyish brown, and the hair is extreme- 

 ly coarse, moderately long, and very thickly covers 

 the whole body and limbs. A remarkable character 

 as to colour in this animal is a broad patch on thd 

 upper part of the back of a reddish or yellow^isli 

 brown, marked on each side by several black 

 .spots, and down the middle by a very conspi- 

 cuous long black stripe. In the young animals 

 this stripe is but very obscurely, if at all, visible. 

 The leading or specific character of the animal 

 consists in all the feet being furnished with three 

 claws; which affords an easy and ready mark of 

 distinction between this species and the tzco-toed 

 Sloth or Bradypus didactylus, which is of similar 

 size, and considerably allied to it in form^ but has 



