. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. ANTEDILUVIAN 189 ANTELOPE little or two-toed ant eater. Both areSouth American. The scaly ant eaters are of an alliedgenus, manis. They derive their Englishname from the fact that they are coveredwith thick scales, which give them the ANTELOPE, the name given to themembers of a large family of ruminantungulata or hoofed mammalia, closely re-sembling the deer in general appearance,but essentially different in nature fromthe latter animals. They are included. ANT EATER sup
. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. ANTEDILUVIAN 189 ANTELOPE little or two-toed ant eater. Both areSouth American. The scaly ant eaters are of an alliedgenus, manis. They derive their Englishname from the fact that they are coveredwith thick scales, which give them the ANTELOPE, the name given to themembers of a large family of ruminantungulata or hoofed mammalia, closely re-sembling the deer in general appearance,but essentially different in nature fromthe latter animals. They are included. ANT EATER superficial appearance of reptiles. The with the sheep and oxen in the familyshort-tailed manis, M. pe7itadactyla of of the cavicornia or hollow-hornedLinnaeus, is found in Bengal and the ruminants. Their horns, unlike those ofIndian archipelago, and M. tetradactyla the deer, are not deciduous, but are per-in Africa. The proper and scaly anteaters edentata, or toothless animals. Tothe same order belong the Cape ant eat-ers, orycterojnis capensis.
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