ACULEATED ANT-EATER. 
embrace the rule comprehended in the old 
•adage, we cannot infer his compleaL assent; 
and have to wish, that he had been ingenuously 
cxphcii. 
What Dr. Shaw says, on this occasion, is 
as follows — " It cannot," says he, " escape 
the observation of every scientific natnraiist, 
that, in consequence of the discovery of this 
ciirioiis animal, the Linnaean chara(5ler of 
Myrmecophaga is, in part, rendered inappli- 
cable. Since, therefore, the genera of Ma- 
nis and Myrmecophaga diiFer only in the ex- 
ternal covering, the former beiiig coated with 
scales, and the latter vnth hair, it would, per- 
haps, be not improper to conjoin the two ge- 
nera, to add this as a new specie?, and to give 
as part of the generic ° chara6rer, ' Corpus 
pilis, squamis, vel aculeis te6tum/ Or it might 
even constitute a new genus, which would dif- 
fer from those of Manis and Myrmecophaga, 
in having the body covered with spines." • 
"Without the siPiallest desiie to controvert 
what is thus advanced by Dr. S'law, we may 
be permitted to remark that, accoidiiig'to our 
idea, 
