THE 
URSINE BRADYPUS, 
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URSIFORM SLOTH. 
Generic Character. 
Cutting-Teeth none in either jaw. 
Canine-Teeth folitary, longer than the grinders. 
Grinders in each jaw 5 or 6 . 
Specific Character. 
BLACK BRADYPUS with very long fhaggy 
hair, and naked lengthened fnout. 
Amongft the new fpecies of animals with which 
Zoology has been lately enriched, the creature here 
figured claims a diftinguilhed place ; and it may be 
doubted whether it might not with great propriety 
conftitute a new genus. In compliance however with 
the opinion of Mr. Pennant, in whofe company I firft 
made an accurate examination of its characters, I have 
here placed it as a fpecies of the genus Bradypus, or 
Sloth. 
In its habit, or general appearance, it has a ftriking 
refemblance to the common bear, and it has even been 
confidered as a fpecies of bear by fome naturalifls. 
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