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Rh cient sustenance from ants alone; but this circumstance has nothing strange in it for those who are acquainted with the tropical parts of America, and who have seen the enormous multitudes of these insects, which swarm in all parts of the

GREAT ANT-BEAR.

country to such a degree that their hills often almost touch one another for miles together." Dr. Schomburgk, however, informs us that in his attacks on the nests of the termites, or white-ants (for it is to these we presume that Azara alludes) the Ant-bear is an economist, and does not destroy more than he needs. When he finds that the termites cease to crowd to the surface in numbers, he examines the fragments he has pulled down,