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ACULEATED ANT-EATER. 
Too recent is the discovery of this extra- 
ordinary animal, to have obtained a place in 
any present edition of the Sy sterna Nature. 
It is a native of New Holland ; and seems to 
form a conne6laig link, in the great chain of 
Nature, between the two very distant Lin- 
nsean genera of Hystrix, or the Porcupine, 
and Myrraecophaga, or the Ant-Eater. 
Dr. Shaw, who seeras'to have first figured 
and described this curious anhnal, in the Na- 
turalist's Miscellany, there calls it the Porcu- 
pine Ant-Eater. Pennant, however, in the 
last edition of his History of Quadrupeds, hav- 
ing named it the Aculeated Ant-Eater, we 
have adopted this latter appellation ; which, 
indeed, Dr.' Shaw has also since liberally done, 
in his late publication. 
It may be termed the Mvrmecophaga Acu- 
leata of the Linnsan system ; and is spcciti- 
cally described as the Spiay Ant -Eater, with 
a very Short 'I'ail. The first discoverers are 
said 
