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appeared to burrow in hard or stony ground, and I saw them always 

 in the daytime. The mother of the specimen I send you lived three 

 months in Zanzibar. She only fed at night, and remained curled up 

 in a ball all day. She regularly retired to the dark corner of my 

 harness-room at daylight, and left for the garden at sunset. There 

 were very few ants; but she seemed to get plenty of insects. She 

 liurrowed at intervals all round the garden walls, but this was 

 evidently only to try and escape, as she never made a hole large 

 enough to give cover. The day she had young she came out during 

 the day ; but not being quite up to grubbing for insects, she went 

 into the stable and remained among the horses grubbing in the dung. 

 After the birth, she tried to entice the young Pangolin to suck 

 (apparently), sitting up like a dog when begging, and coiling up the 

 moment she got it in her lap. I could not, hovv^ever, detect whether 

 she managed to suckle it ; indeed, I was quite ignorant of the habits 

 of the animal in its natural state. The first day, the young one had 

 soft scales, but they hardened the second day, and it died the same 

 night. The mother wandered about for two days afterAvards, and then 

 came into the house and died." 



The young one here spoken of was afterwards given to the writer 

 by Dr Sclater;' like the nearly ripe embryo of the Aard-vark, kindly 

 put into my hands by Professor Flower since the delivery of this 

 lecture, it was very large for its age, and I suppose that both these 

 Old World Edentates are uniparous. Anyhow, their }• oung when born 

 are relatively stronger than lambs, calves, or foals. 



Mr E. W. White, F.Z.S., in the Proc. Zool. Soc. for 26th Jan. 

 1880, pp. 8-11, has given a most interesting and valuable account 

 of the habits of the smallest of the Armadillos — and of the 

 Edentata generally — the Cldamndoplwrus (or Cldamyj)]iorusf ; unfor- 

 tunately it is too long for insertion here, and too good for mutila- 

 tion. 



Professor Flower, in his valualjle article, oj:). cit., gives a biblio- 

 graphical list, which includes works on fossil as well as on recent 

 Edentata ; and the reader is referred also to Professor Huxley's memoir 

 on the Glyptodon, PMl. Trans., 1865, pp. 31-70, plates 4-9. 



Professor Owen's magnificent work, on Mylodon ruhustus, London, 

 1842, may be referred to : his description and figures of the Glyp- 



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