. Illustrated natural history : comprising descriptions of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., with sketches of their peculiar habits and characteristics . Zoology. 124 The Oreat Ant-eater. supposes that it has a sufficiency, it quickly withdraws the tongue, and swallows them at once. This operation it repeats till it in satisfied, or till the ants, grown more cautious, will be no longer allured to their destruction. The Ant-eater inhabits Guiana, Brazil, and Paraguay. As its name imports, it lives principally upon ants and termites, which it procures in • precisely
. Illustrated natural history : comprising descriptions of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., with sketches of their peculiar habits and characteristics . Zoology. 124 The Oreat Ant-eater. supposes that it has a sufficiency, it quickly withdraws the tongue, and swallows them at once. This operation it repeats till it in satisfied, or till the ants, grown more cautious, will be no longer allured to their destruction. The Ant-eater inhabits Guiana, Brazil, and Paraguay. As its name imports, it lives principally upon ants and termites, which it procures in • precisely the same manner as was re- lated of the manis. Its short legs and long claws would lead an observer to suppose that its pace was slow and constrained. When chased, however, it runs off with a peculiar trot, and with such rapidity, that it keeps a horse to its speed to overtake it. Schomburgh relates that a tame ant- eater, in his possession, by no means restricted itself to ants, but devoured meat, when minced, with much avidity. The same natu- ralist also discovered a julus, or millipede, in the stomach of an ant-eater which he dissected. The ordinary length of this animal is about three feet seven inches, and its height is usually about three feet. The Little Ant-eater also inhabits Guiana and Brazil. The principal characteristics of this animal are the shortness of its muzzle, and the prehensile power of its tail, which^ it twists •j)und the branches on which it principally resides. It often attacks the nests of wasps, pulling them to pieces with its clawB, and devouring the grubs. The length of its body is ten inches. The Armadillo.—^Under the general name of Armadillo we may reckon several 'species, which seem to us really distinct; in all of them the animal is protected by a crust resembling bone; it covers the head, the neck, the back, the flanks, the buttocks, and the tail to the very extremity. This crust- is covered out- wardly by a thin skin, sleek and transpar
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