The Hijlory of ANIMALS, 535 
bark, and never drinking. It is extreamly timorous, and the head is continually thrown 
from one fide to another, as if in alarms at every noife : it cries like a young kitten. 
It is frequent in many parts of America. Marcgrave calls it Ai five Ignavus; Clu~ 
fius, Ignavus and Agilis j we call it the Sloth. 
Bradypus manibus didaElylis , cauda nulla . 
The Bradypus , with only two toes on the 3 CI )t 
fore-feet , and without any tail. 
This is a very lingular animal, and is a ftill flower mover than the American ipe- 
cies j it’s body being proportionately more bulky, and the feet narrower, and worfe 
formed for walking, than in that fpecies: the head is Ihort; the whole face hairy, ex¬ 
cepting only the tip of the nofe, which is naked and blue : the eyes are fmall, and 
appear half fhut; the back has fome breadth, and the hips in particular are large 5 the 
back is of a very dark brown, with an admixture of greyilh and of olive; the fides 
are paler, and have more of the olive: the belly is dufky ; the teeth are fmall; the 
nofirils wide and elate, it has no tail 
This fpecies has been yet feen no where, except in the ifland of Ceylon. It is fre¬ 
quent in the woods there, and is fo flow in it’s motions, that it is eafily taken or 
deftroyed. 
S I M I A. 
T H E face of the Simla is naked"; the claws are rounded and flattifh, in fome 
degree like the nails on the human hand, and there is an eye-lid each way. 
Simla acauda fubtus glabra. > 
The Simia without a tail , with a fmooth belly . 
%\it £>atpr. 
This fpecies has an unlucky refemblance to the human form, but it is the moft mif- 
chievous, bold, and vicious of the whole monkey-kind; it feems highly probable, 
that the fatyrs, in the antient poets, had their origin from imperfedt accounts of this 
creature. 
It is one of the larger kind ; it ufually walks eredt on the two hinder legs, and is in 
that pofition more than four feet in height: the face has no hair on it, and carries too 
flriking a refemblance of fome of the lefs beautiful of our own fpecies; the eyes are 
large, and have an upper and under eye-lid, exadtly as in our own fpecies^; the ears 
are broad, flat, and open in the manner of ours: the noftrils have much the fame fi- 
tuation, though the whole of the nofe is not fo determinate in figure, or fo elevated 5 
the teeth alfo have the form and fituation of our own, and even the eye-lafhes are 
like ours. Thefe Angularities are not found in any degree in the other quadrupeds 5 
the obfervation of them in this is as old Ariftotle, and the modern obfervations per- 
fedtly confirm it. 
The whole back, fides, and hinder part of the legs are hairy; the whole anterior part, 
in the eredt pofture of the creature, is fmooth; the breaft is naked, and has the nipples 
fituated on it, juft as in the human fpecies; and the whole, when viewed in this direc¬ 
tion, has very little refemblance to any thing of the quadruped-kind : the fore-legs 
have very much the appearance of arms, and the creature bends and diredts them in 
the fame manner, and the hinder ones refemble legs; they are more robuft than the 
others: the paws of the fore-feet have the form of the human hand, but in a rude 
and coarfe way ; and the claws are large, flat, and rounded in the manner of our 
nails : the paws of the hinder feet are yet more like hands; in this the fimilarity is, in 
fome degree, loft, for the toes are not fhort, as on our feet, but longer, and more 
like fingers than thofe of the fore-onesthe anterior toe on thefe refembles the thumb 
