tamanduan.

1614 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 2) ix. iv. 835 The Tamendoas are as big as a Ram, with long and sharp snouts, a taile like a squirrell, (twice as long as the body and hairy).

1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 851 The Tamandua or Ant-bear.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Tamandua,..called in English the ant-bear, and by the Brasilians tamandua-guaçu.]

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 338 The larger tamandua, the smaller tamandua, and the ant-eater.

1834 Penny Cycl. II. 65/1 The Tamandua (Myrmecophaga tamandua, Cuvier,) or second species of ant-eater, is an animal much inferior to the great ant-bear in point of size, being scarcely so large as a good-sized cat.

1849 Sketches Nat. Hist.: Mammalia IV. 212 In the general plan of its osteology the tamandua agrees with the tamanoir, but the bones of the muzzle are shorter than the cranial portion.

1851 Owen in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 141 744 In the Tamandua (Myrmecophaga Tamandua)..all the cervical vertebræ have spinous processes except the atlas.

1896 List Vertebrated Animals Gardens Zool. Soc. (ed. 9) 198 Tamandua tetradactyla, Tamandua Ant~eater.

1903 Westm. Gaz. 17 Feb. 10/2 A new and interesting arrival at the Zoological Gardens is the Tamandua ant-eater,..a native of the forests of tropical America, where it leads an entirely arboreal life.