GREAT ANT-EATER. 
M. De la Borde, as is likewivSe stated in 
Burron's Supplement, says that " the Great 
Ant-Eater's respiration is performed solely hi 
the nostrils. At the first vertebra, which joins 
the neck to the head, the wind-pipe is very 
large: but it suddenly contracts, and forms a 
canal ; which is continued in the horn, oi 
trunk, that serves the animal for an upper jaw, 
to the nostrils. This horn is a foot in length ; 
being as long, at least, as the rest of the head 
The wind-pipe has no opening into the mouth ;| 
and yet the aperture of the nostrils is so small 
as hardly to admit a common quill. The eye 
are very minute, and the animal sees at th 
sides only. The fat is extremely white." 
A variety of the Great Ant-Eater, with 
shorter muzzle, and shorter legs, was sent t( 
BafFon, from Guiana. The hair on the side^ 
was two inches and a half long, and as hard 
or bristly, to the touch, as that of the Wij 
Boar. The general colour, deep brown ai 
dusky white. It is made a variety of the Myri 
mecophaga Jubata, in the Linn^an systei 
under the appellation Myrmecophaga Jubat 
Pima, or the Short-Nosed Great Ant-Eatcr. J 
