MIDDLE ANT-EATER. 159 
men is given in No. 2. of the Museum Leveri- 
anum, and is copied in the present work. 
MIDDLE ANT-EATER. 
Myrmecophdga Tetradactyla. M. palmis tetradactylis , plantis 
pentadactylis, cauda cahja. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 52. 
Ant-eater, with four toes on the fore feet, five on the hind, and 
half-naked prehensile tail. 
This species, which is far inferior in size to the 
former, has a long slender nose, bending down a 
little : the mouth is black : the eyes small : the 
ears small and upright. The general colour of 
the animal is a pahsh yellow-brown; the hair 
somewhat shinino\ and of a hard nature : on each 
side of the neck is an oblique black or dusky band, 
crossing the shoulders, and passing toward the lower 
part of the back : the tail, which is covered with 
longer hair than the back, is thickish at the base, 
but tapers towards the end where it is nearly bare, 
having the same prehensile power as in some of 
the Monkies. On each of the fore feet are four 
toes, armed with strong claws^ the middle ones 
extremely so. On the hind feet are five claws, 
small in comparison with the former. The length 
of the animal from nose to tail is one foot seven 
inches: of the tail ten inches. It inhabits the 
same parts of South America with the Great Ant- 
Eater, and its manners are similar. It also climbs 
trees, and occasionally clings by its tail to the 
branches. 
