ACULEA'TED ANT-EATER. 
idea, the Manis seems to the full as near in 
affinity to the Hystrix, as it is to the Myrme- 
cophaga; and, consequently, that the pro- 
posed union of genera must either he enlarged 
or rejected. Hiere are, it is certain, striking si- 
militudes possessed by the three several genera ; 
but it is no less true, that they have, also, ob- 
vious variations, equally remote, some of which 
appioximate other animals. 
