112 MAMMALIAN" DESCENT. [Lect. IV, 



skeletons of the two forms {A7iri. Sci. Nat., ser. 3, vol. xx. p. 188) ; and, 

 as will be allowed by everybody, the comparison of the living specimens- 

 seems to confirm their distinctness. The chief noticeable differences 

 in the living animals are the more hairy body, especially on the lower 

 back and flanks, the shorter thicker tail, and the shorter head and 

 ears in the 0. capensis. The insides of the nostrils at their openings 

 are thickly covered with hair in 0. capensis, which is not nearly so 

 much the case in 0. cethiopicus." 



3. Proc. Zool. Soc, June 20, 1871, p. 546, plate 43. The 

 sixteenth creature in the Secretary's Report is : — "A Tamandua Ant- 

 eater {Tamandua tetradadyla, Linn.), from the vicinity of Santa 

 Marta, purchased May 29. The clever drawing of Mr Keuleman's, 

 which I exhibit (plate 43), will serve to give an idea of the external 

 form of this animal, which has never been previously received alive 

 by the Society, though we have at present two fine examples of 

 Myrmecophaga gigantea living in the menagerie, and have twice 

 received living specimens of Cydoturus didadylus (see Proc. Zool. 

 Soc, 1865, p. 385, plate 19). Our Tamandua measures as follows: — 

 Long. Corp. 20, caudse 20, total 40, poll. Ang. 



4. Proc. Zool. Soc, June 19, 1877. "A Pangolin {Manis 

 tricuspis), purchased May 24 from Mr Cross of Liverpool, being, as 

 far as I know, the first example of this remarkable form of the 

 Edentata that has ever reached us alive. 



The animal, which I regret to have to add, died on the 27tli ult. 

 from debility, consequent upon ulceration of the tongue, is a male, 

 probably not quite mature. It measures 28^ inches in length, the 

 body being 1 3 1 inches, and the tail 1 5 inches long ; there are seven 

 series of scales on the- head, twenty or twenty-one on the back, and 

 thirty-eight on the tail (see woodcut, p. 531). 



5. Proc. Zool. Soc, June 14, 1878. The Secretary exhilnted a 

 young specimen of Temminck's Manis {Manis Temmincki), wliich 

 had been brought from Zanzibar by Mr Frederick Holmwood, 

 assistant political agent at Zanzibar, and made the subjoined extract 

 from a letter of Mr Holmwood referring to it : — 



" The mother of this little Pangolin came from the coast opposite 

 Zanzibar, latitude 6° S., but I have seen what I took to be the 

 same animal, both in Somali-land, under the equator, and as far 

 south as the Makna country, opposite Mozambique. They always 



