. A System of natural history : containing scientifci [sic] and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . ack and small; his ears round; his tonguethin, more than two feet long, which he folds again in his mouth, after hedraws it entirely out. His legs are but one foot high ; the fore legs are alittle higher and more slender than those behind; he has round feet; the 1 Myrmecophagu jubata, Lin. Animals of the genus Myrmecophaga are utterly tooth-less ; they have the head elongated ; muzzle tapenng to a point; tongiie long, protractile;toes united, four befor
. A System of natural history : containing scientifci [sic] and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . ack and small; his ears round; his tonguethin, more than two feet long, which he folds again in his mouth, after hedraws it entirely out. His legs are but one foot high ; the fore legs are alittle higher and more slender than those behind; he has round feet; the 1 Myrmecophagu jubata, Lin. Animals of the genus Myrmecophaga are utterly tooth-less ; they have the head elongated ; muzzle tapenng to a point; tongiie long, protractile;toes united, four before and five behind, or two before and four behind, armed with strongnails ; two pectoral and two ventral mammHe ; tail long; sometimes prehensile. 272 MAMMALIA—ANT-EATER. fore feet are armed v^^ith four claws, the two middle ones are the longest;those behind have five claws. The hair of his head and body is black andwhite; this animal turns his tail up on his back, and covers with it hiswhole body, when he is inclined to sleep, or wants to shelter himself fromthe rain or the heat of the sun. The long hair of his tail and of his body is. not round in all its extent; it is fiat towards the end, and feels like drygrass. He waves his tail frequently and hastily when he is irritated, but ithangs down when he is composed, and he sweeps the way with it as hegoes. The tamanoir walks slowly; a man can easily overtake him inrunning; his feet seem less calculated to walk than to climb, and to fastenround bodies; and he holds so fast a branch or a stick, that it is not possibleto snatch either from him. The second of these animals is that whichthe Americans call THE He is much smaller than the tamanoir; he is not above eighteen inchesfrom the extremities of the snout to the rump ; his head is five inches long,his snout crooked, and underneath flat and long; he has a tail ten incheslong, without hair at the end; his ears are erect, and about an inch inlength; his tongue is round
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