LITTLE ANT-EATER. 
tween it's heels and claws. It's cars aie small 
and round,, hardly appearing above the hair^ 
It's hinder legs are longer than those forward.. 
The drawing was taken from the stuiFed' 
skin of this animal, well preserved, in the 
possession of his Excellency Count Perron^ 
Ambassador from the King of Sardinia, wha 
was informed that it was brought from the 
Spanish main in America. Anotlier of these 
same animals, preserved in s])ints, I bought by 
commission for the late Sir Hans Sloane, out 
of the late Duke of Richmond\s colle6lion, 
in whose catalogue it was called a species of 
th.e Sloth. It will continue in the British Mu- 
seum, where it may be examined by natura- 
lists. By the help of these two, a more per- 
fe61: figure, &c. is here given, than could have 
been taken from either of them alone : the first 
being only a skin ; and the other closely sealed 
up in spirits of wine, which I was not per- 
mitted to open. I coukl not examine tlie 
mouth of it; but, according to C. Linnasus, it 
is without teeth. See his Svstema Naturae, 
I.ipsice, y\. D. 1748. p. 8. Ord. 3. " Agri.^., 
dcntcs nuUi, lingua lungissima cylrndrica.. 1 5. 
Mv R.MECOPHAC; A, 
