ECHIDNA.
The great ant-eater or ant-bear (Myrmecophaga jubata) is the largest representative of the tropical American family Myr mecophagidae (see also EDENTATA). It measures 4 ft. in length, exclusive of the long bushy tail, which is usually carried bent over the back, and reaches a height of 2 ft. at the shoulder.
It inhabits the swampy savannas and humid forests of S. and Central America, but is nowhere common. Characteristic features are the long, tapering snout and the strong curved claws on the fore feet. With the latter it not only defends itself effectively but also tears holes in the dwellings of ants and termites, cap turing the inhabitants by means of its long, sticky tongue. The female produces a single young at a birth. The tamandua eaters, typified by Tamandua tetradactyla, are smaller and boreal, inhabiting the primeval forests of S. and Central America. Also arboreal is the little or toed ant-eater (Cyclopes tylus) of the same region, about the size of a rat and yellowish in colour.
the term given to that portion of a chapel which lies on the western side of the choir screen. In some of the colleges at Oxford and bridge the ante-chapel is carried north and south across the west end of the chapel, constituting a western transept or narthex. This model, based on Merton college chapel (13th century), of which only chancel and transept were built though a nave was projected, was followed at Wadham, New and Magdalen colleges, Oxford, in the new chapel of St. John's college, Cambridge, and in Eton lege. In Jesus college, Cambridge, the transept and a short nave constitute the ante-chapel; in Clare college an octagonal vestibule serves the same purpose ; and in Christ's, Trinity and King's leges, Cambridge, the ante-chapel is a portion of the main chapel. in architecture, the vertical blocks ing, at the eaves, each row of the covering tiles of a roof in a classic building, and forming a cresting along the cornice. They were often decorated with the anthemion (q.v.) ornament, and made of either tile or marble.