MAMMALIA. BRUTA. Bradypus. 
ORDER II. BRUTA. 
Fore-teeth o in either jaw. 
BRADYPUS. Fore-teeth o: grinders 6 in 
each jaw, obliquely truncate, cylin- 
drical, 2 anterior longer, far diftant : 
body covered with hair. 
TrydaBy- Feet 4-toed ; tail lliort. shth. 
Inhabits the warmer parts of South Amen, a : feeds on frefli 
leaves, lives in trees, never drinks, is fearful of rain ; climb's 
cafily, walks painfully and (loevly, liardly travelling sovards 
in a ay , turns Its head as if altonilhed ; its note an aicending 
Jyxachord; us cry is miferabls, its tears are pitiful. 
£ody very hairy, gr&y ; face naked; throat yellow; ears o\ 
taiUubovate; jorc-Jeet longer than the hind, diftant; toes 
dole; claws comprelfed, narrovr, hooked, ftrong; teats 2, 
pettoral ; mouth never without foam : fize of a Imallilli dog. 
PidaBylus Fore-feet 2-toed ; tail o. ' Twc-tced Skth. 
inhabits South America and India ; feeds on fruits and roots ; 
Iraell weak ; light better by night than day ; not lb flow in 
motion as the ISft. 
//iiir rufly-brown, waved; head rounded; ears larcre; claws 
on the fore-feet 2, on the hind-feet 3 ; troii 2, pehoral : ia 
this and the ka fpecies there is only one common excretory 
canal as in bii'cls ; length 1 1 inches. 
Pentadac- 
tyliis. 
Five toes on all the feet ; tail Ihort. Fivetoed Sloth. 
A heavy clumly though not ferocious animal, of a mixed re- 
lerablance betwxen the bear, lloth and iiog ; when irritated gives 
a ftort harft cry _; catches what is thrown to it with its paws 
and carries it to its moudi; eats bread, fruit, eggs but not 
^ roots; moves quick. ’ 
2 in each jaw included by the Ups; body arched on the 
back covered svith long black harlh hair Ihedding on each 
hde from the ridge of the back ; face at the top large, broad, 
lovwr part narrow, projeaing; wecA Ihort, thick ; flrort, 
creft hairy, hid m fur; month wide, upper liAs reSng 
the lower within the edges; nofirils covered L a length- 
cned flap; tongne long, flat, broadifli,. truncate ; %u> 
vsnt^h a moveabie cartilap at the fore-part ; kgs diflam, fl/ort, 
ftiong, foie-ones a little arched outwards; /ee< fmall ; foies 
naked ; claws long, narrow, hooked, white, dole fet, about 
3 inches long, not retraade ; length 4 1 feet, heighth 
SDOut 3, circumference nearly 3, MYR- 
