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fhall only mention a Few Specimens; as, the Arma¬ 
dillo, called by the Natives 'Tatu, a little Animal 
covered over with hard Scales, like a Sort of Ar¬ 
mour ; in its Head and Snout it refembles a Pig, 
has the Feet of a Hedgehog, and is a great De- 
ftroyer of Sugar Canes in the Brazils. The Sloth, 
called Haii by the Natives of Brazil ; of this Ani¬ 
mal many Stories are told, as that it is a whole Day 
walking a few Yards-, that it will grow fat when it 
has got into a Tree, but having confumed all the 
Food the Tree afforded, it will be nearly flarved 
before it can get to another; if it is hurt, it makes 
a Noife like the crying of a Child, and even fheds 
Tears his fore Legs are double his hinder in 
length : It is a very inoffenfive and harmlefs, 
but not a very handfome Animal. The Yer- 
bua, a Kind of beautiful Field Moufe, with a very 
long Tail and hinder Legs, on which it generally 
walks eredt. Several Kinds of Monkeys. The 
flying Squirel, frequent in Virginia , which has a 
Membrane reaching from the fore to the hinder 
Legs, of the Nature of a Bat’s Wing, and ferving 
for the Ufe of flying from Tree to Tree, which it 
will do, though they are at a confiderable Diftance. 
Some Bats of various Kinds. A Hedgehog; and 
the Opoffum, an Animal, which, in cafe of Dan¬ 
ger, protefts its young in a Cavity under its Belly. 
Under this Title are a great Number of Foetus’s 
of different Animals, and fome unnatural Produc¬ 
tions, among which is the Cyclops Pig, having 
only one Eye, and that in the Middle of the Fore¬ 
head. 
Aves, Birds. There are here a great Number 
and Variety of Englijh and foreign Birds, brought 
from all Countries, and preferved in Spirits: I fhall 
refer 
