Ths Hiflory of ANIMALS. 531 
This is a native of many parts of Africa* and has been defcribed by Siba, under 
the name of the Mus Africanus Hayopolin didtus. Moil of the zoologiits have 
omitted it. 
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Clafs the Second\ 
A G R I iE. 
T H E Agrise have no teeth : the tongue is very long and cylindric. Of this fin- 
gular clafs there are only two known genera. The Myrmecophaga and Manis., 
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MYRMECOPHAGA. 
T H E body of the Myrmecophaga is covered with hair ; the ears are of a round- 
iih figure. 
Myrmecophaga manihus trida&ylis , plantis pentada&ylis . 
The Myrmecophaga , with three toes on the fore-feet , and 
on the hinder feet. 
This is a very lingular and a very beautiful creature 5 it is of the fize of a mafliff 
dog: the head is large, and of a Angular figure; the fnout being at leaft a foot in 
length, and of a cylindric figure: the opening of the mouth is fmall, and there are no 
teeth in it: the tongue is rounded, and pointed at the end, and, when fully exerted, is 
a foot and half in length. This is, in the ufual ftate, carried doubled in the mouth 5 
but, when the creature is to eat, it thrulls out upon an ant-hill, and when it is covered 
with thofe creatures, draws it in again. 
The eyes are fmall and black; the ears are fhort and rounded $ the tail is Very 
long, very large, and covered with a thick fur ; the creature has a great facility in 
moving it, and wipes every part of the body with it at pleafure: the neck is fhort; 
the body is robufl and flefhy: the legs are robufl, and about a foot in length; the 
fore-ones are about an inch longer than the hinder. 
The fur on the back is black, but with an admixture of a hoary\ White: the 
head and neck are covered with hair of the fame colour, but fhorter; this Hands for¬ 
ward : that on the back and tail is fix inches long, and lies backward ; that on the 
fides is fhorter, and has it’s direction downward: the fore-legs are of a greyer or 
whitifh-hoary colour, only each of them toward the foot has a fpot of black; the 
breafl is covered with one great black fpot, which reaches each way to the fides, and 
half way down the body, and is terminated at top by a white line : the hinder legs 
are black; the tail is of a flatted or broad figure, and is covered with hairs long, ri¬ 
gid, and thick like horfe-hairs. 
It is a native of many parts of America ; and from fome refemblance of it’s hin¬ 
der legs to thofe of the bear, and it’s feeding on ants, it has been called Urfus formi- 
canus by Cardan and others* Marcgrave calls it by it’s Brafilian name, Tasnandua 
Guacu. 
%%& great 
StttNbear. 
Myrmecophaga 
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