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Africa , as it possesses according to Focillon's description an 

 uninterrupted line of scales on the tail. Without the sligh- 

 test hesitation I agree with Gray ^) believing that it is 

 only a young specimen of Manis javanica. — As a third ex- 

 ample I wish to cite Manis leptura Blyth ^). The native 

 locality of this species was unknown and Blyth terminates 

 the description in the following terms: » altogether, this 

 » species presents a marked approximation to the long- 

 > tailed Pangolins of Africa." His assertion however, that 

 there is a central row from the occiput to the tail-tip , 

 points out precisely that his Manis is not an African form. 



A second point to which I call the attention of na- 

 turalists is the following. Focillon ^) remarks as to his 

 Manis guy: >la queue se termine, en dessous par un es- 

 » pace nu , pulpeux , et qui peut , pour I'aspect , se comparer 

 »exactement a la plante des pieds de I'animal. C'est, je 

 » crois , un organe de toucher grossier et en même temps 

 »un point de sustentation." Motley and Dillwyn *) des- 

 cribe the tail of Manis javanica as being powerfully pre- 

 hensile and furnished with a little naked callosity. An 

 examination of our specimens has proved that in all the 

 species the end of the tail is naked on its lower surface, 

 only with two exceptions, viz: Manis gigantea and tem- 

 minckii. 



It is a long-known fact , that in certain species of Manis 

 a small number of bristles protrude from beneath every 

 scale , and I also find these bristles very constantly , but 

 only in the Asian and Indian species and not a trace of 

 it in the African ones , if adult. However a young Manis 

 gigantea in our collection und a young Manis longicaudata , 

 cited by Thompson ^) are armed with spiny hairs or brist- 

 les, although they never are to be found in the fullgrown 



1) P. Z. S. L. 1865. p. 366. 



2) J. As. S. B. 1842. p. 454; 1847. p. 1247. 



3) Revue et Magasin de Zoölogie. 1850. p. 514. 



4) N. H. Labuan. p. 51. 



5) P. Z. S. L. 1834. p. 29. 



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