THE GREAT ANT-EATER. 



Generic Characters. 



Body covered with hair. 

 Mouth fmall. 



Tongue long and cylindric. 

 No teeth. 



Synonims. 



Myrmecophaga jubata, Linn. Syft. 52. Klein Quad. 45. tab. v. 

 Tamandua*guacu, Marcgrave Brafil, 225. Pifo Brafil, 320. 

 Tamandua major, Barrere France jEquin. 162. 

 Mange-fourmis, des Marchais, iii. 307. 

 Great Ant-Bear, Rati Syn. Quad. 241. 

 Le Tamanoir, de Buffon, x. \4l. tab. xxix. 

 Great Ant-Eater, Pennant's Syn. Quad. 2Q0. 



THE extraordinary figure of this animal readily diltinguilh.es it, at the 

 firll view, from every other quadruped. The Horfe has the longer!: head of 

 any creature we are acquainted with, in proportion to the length of its body, 

 but the fnout of the Ant-Eater is fo much elongated, that the head, meafured 

 from the ears to the end of the nofe, is more than twice as long, in proportion, 

 as that of the Horfe. This extraordinary form of the fnout is necelTary for 

 the reception of its long and llender tongue, which is two feet and a half 

 in length, and lies doubled in the mouth, without which lingular apparatus 

 the animal could not maintain itfelf. 



The length of the Ant- Eater is nearly four feet, from the tip of the fnout 

 to the infertion of the tail, which is two feet and a half long. The eyes are 



