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ANT-EATER. 
back, is taper and bald at the end : length, from 
nofe to tail, one foot feven inches; the tail ten 
inches. 
Inhabits the fame country with the lafl:: its man¬ 
ners much the fame: when it drinks, part fpurts out 
of the noftrils : climbs trees, and lays hold of the 
branches with its tail. 
Tamandua minor flavejcens ; Myrmecophaga dida&yla. M. *62. Lest. 
Ouatiriouaou, Barrere France JE- palmis didactylis, plantis tetra- 
<wn. 163. da&ylis, cauda villofa, Lin.fyfi. 
Tamanaua five Coati Americana ci. Zooph. Grcnov. No. 1. 
alba. Self. Muf. I. tab. xxxvii. Little Ant-eater, Edw. Ho. 
Myrmecophaga roftro brevi, pe- Le Fourmillir, de Buff on, x. 144. 
dibus anticis didaftylis, polticis tab. xxx. 
tetrada&ylis, Brffon quad. 17. 
A. E. with a conic nofe, bending a little down : ears 
fmall, and hid in the fur: two hooked claws on the 
fore feet, the exterior much the largeft: ^ four on the 
hind feet: head, body, limbs, and upper part and 
fides of the tail, covered with long foft filky hair, or 
rather wool, of a yellowifh brown color: from nofe 
to tail feven inches and a half; tail eight and a half; 
the laft four inches of which, on the under-fide, 
naked: the tail is thick at the bafe, and tapers to a 
point. 
Inhabits Guiana : climbs trees, in queft of a fpe- 
cies of ants which build their nefts among; the 
branches: has the fame prehenfile power with its 
tail as the former. 
There is a fourth fpecies found at the Cafe of 
Good Hope and in Ceylon - 9 but being deferibed from 
a meer 
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