been colle&ed in Paris by Don Pedro Davila-fa) a, native*
o f Peru, which his majefty has accepted of, and apr
pointed him direflor thereof; and was alfo at the charge
o f bringing them from Paris. Every thing is ranged:
with peatnefs- and elegance, and the apartments are opened
twice a week for the public, befides being ihewn p r i vately
to Grangers of rank.. .
The cohesion of Bealls and-birds, at prefent is not
large, but maybe fuppofed to: improve, apace, if they
take care. to get the productions o f their American colonies.
They have the fkeleton of an- elephant that
died lately at Madrid ; alfo a little American ox Huffed,,
called Zebu,, by Mr, de Burton, and; Ze-bulo by the-
Spaniards. The great Ant bear from Buenos Ayres, the
Myrmecophaga Jubata: o f Linneus, called by the Spar
niards Oja Palmer a,, was alive at Madrid in, 177 b, and:
is. now fluffed and preferved in this cabinet. The people
who brought it from Buenos Ayres, fay, it differs,
from the ant-eater, which only feeds 011 emmets and;
other infecls ; whereas this would eat fleih,. when cut in,
fin all pieces, to the amount o f four, or five pounds..
From the fnout to the extremity o f the tail this animal
is two yards in.length, and his height is about, two feet..
The head very narrow, the nofe long, and llender.
The tongue is fo lingular, that it- looks more like a;
(a1- -See catalogue des cuiioiixes du cabinet de Davila. 3 tomes, avcc figure«. Paris, 1767..
a worm,.
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