A N T~ E A TER. 
Body covered with hair. 
■Small mouth : long cylindric tongue. 
No' teeth. 
T gmandiaa-guacu, Marcgraws Mynnecdphaga roftro longiffimo, 
Brafih zz$. f pedibus anticis tetrada&yiis, po~ 
Tamanduaguacu live major, Pifq Iticis pentada&ylis, cauda longif- 
Brqfdy 320. limis pills veilita. Brijjbnquad. 1 c» 
Pifmire-eater, Nieuhof, iq. Myrmecophaga jubata, pal- 
Tamandua major cauda panni- mis tetradadiylis, plantis penta- 
culata B&rrereFrance JEquin. 162. dadlylis, Lin. fyjl . 52. ' Klein quad , 
Mange-Fourmis des Mar.‘‘chats. , III. 4 ij . tab. v. 
307". Le Tamanoir, dsBuffon, x. 141. 
Great Ant-Bear, Raiijyn. quad, tab. xxix, Er* Muf. 
24 i, 
A. E. with a long {lender nofe : fmall black eyes ; 
fliort round ears .* {lender tongue, two feet and a 
half long, which lies double in the mouth : legs 
{lender: four toes on the fore feet, five on the hind : 
the two middle claws on the fore feet very large, 
ftrong and hooked : the hair on the upper part of 
the body is half a foot long, black mixed with 
grey : from the neck crqfs the ilioulders to the Tides 
is a black line bounded above with white: the fore 
legs are whitifh, marked above the feet with a,black 
fpoc: the tail is cloathed with very coarfe black 
hairs a foot long: length, from nofe to tad, about 
three feet ten inches , the tail two and a half. 
Inhabits Brafd and Guiana : runs ilowly : lives on 
ants $ as loon as it difeovers their nefts, overturns 
them, or digs them up with its feet; then thru its 
its long tongue into their retreats, and penetrating 
all the paflages -of the neft, withdraws it Into its 
mouth 
33 * 
■XXXIX. 
ANT-EAT¬ 
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260. Great* 
