33* ANT-EATER. 
mouth loaded with prey: is fearful! of rain, and 
protects itfelf againft wet by covering its body with 
its long tail. The fledi has a ftrong difagreeable 
tafte, but is eaten by the Indians. Notwithftanding 
this animal wants teeth, it is fierce and dangerous ; 
nothing that gets within its fore feet can difengage 
itfelf. The very Panthers of America * are often 
unequal in the combat; for if the Ant-eater once 
has opportunity of embracing them, it fixes its ta¬ 
lons in their fides, and both fall together, and both 
perifh; for fuch is the obftinacy and flupidity of 
this animal, that it will not extricate itfelf even 
from a dead adversary f : deeps in the day s preys 
by night; 
4£>i 1 U i Tamandua-i, Marcgr&ve Brafil, pedibus anticis tetrada£Iylis, po~ 
.1 AiDDLE. 225. Ratify n. quad. 242. llicis pentadadlylis, cauda fere 
Tamandua minor, ?ifoBrafil> 320. nuda, BriJJon quad. 16. 
Barrerc France AH quin. 162. Myrmecophaga tetradaftyla, Lin. 
Tamandua-guacu, Nieukoff, 19. fyji. 52. Zooph. Gronov. No. 2. 
Myrmecophaga rollrolongiffimo, Le Tamandua, deBuffon } x. 144. 
A. E. with a long flender nofe, bending a little 
down : final! black mouth and eyes: fmall upright 
ears: bottoms of the fore feet round ^ four claws 
on each, like thofe of the former •, five on the hind 
feet: hair ihining and hard, of a pale yellow color : 
along the middle of the back, and on the hind legs, 
duiky : each fide the neck is a black line, that erodes 
the dioulders and meets at the lower end of the 
back: the tail is. covered with longer hair than the 
* GumiUaOrenoque , III. 232. 
1 Bifo ’B+etfil, 320. 
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