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taken from the pole •, after feme time the Sloth layed 
hold of the dog with its feet, and held him four 
days, till he perifhed with hunger *. 
Tardigradus Ceilonicus fxmina. Tardigradus pedibus anticis di- 25 
Stb. Muf. I. tub. xxxiv. dadtylis, pofticis tridadtylis. Brif- 
JBradypus didaftylus. Br. mani- fan quad. 2 2. 
bus didaftylis cauda nulla Lin. L’Unau. de Buffon, xiii. 34. tab. 
I. Br. Muf. 
SI. with a round head: ftiort projecting nofe : ears 
like the human, lying flat to the head : two long 
ftrong claws on the fore feet, three on the hind: 
hair on the body long and rough; on fome parts 
curled and woolly: in fome, of a pale red above, 
cinereous below ; in others, of a yellowifh white 
below, cinereous brown above. Length of that in 
the Britijh Mufeum eleven inches : 1 believe a young 
one; no tail. 
Inhabits S. America and 'the ifle of Ceylon. The 
laft is ftrenuoufly denied by M. de Buffon , who has 
fixed the refidence of this genus to America only: 
but, beficles the authority of Seha, who exprefsly 
fays his fpecimen was brought from Ceylon , a gentle¬ 
man, long refident in India, and much diftinguilhed 
in the literary world, has informed me he has feen 
this aoijnal brought from the Paliacat mountains 
that lie in fight of Ma draff ♦ which fatisfies me that 
it is common to both continents. 
There is reafon to think that it is met with alfo 
in Guinea , or at left fome fpecies of this genus * for 
* Kirchsr. 
Y Ballot 
1. Two- 
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