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1869. Pholidotus giganteus Gray. Catalogue, p. 373. Fig. 

 44 (Skull). 



1872. Phatages giganteus Fitzinger. Sitzb. d. K. Akad. 

 Wien. p. 67 ; Ph. tvagneri Fitz. 1. c. p. 40. 



1873. Pangolin giganteus Gray. Handlist, p. 9. 



Tail shorter than head and body; tapering to the end. 

 Body covered with 17 longitudinal series of scales. Tail 

 with from 15 to 19 marginal scales ; the interrupted middle 

 row of the tail consists of from 12 to 15 scales, follo- 

 wed by two rows of from 3 to 4 scales each. 



Hab. Liberia (Biittikofer and Sala); Niger (Baikie) ; 

 Gaboon (British Museum) ; Vernando-Vaz , Nkongon , 

 Mboumba , about 2° South of the Equator (Du Chaillu). 



Mounted specimens in the Leyden Museum: 



1. Male. Liberia, Grand Cape Mount. Biittikofer. 13 

 October 1881. Long: head and body 79 cm., tail 64.5 

 cm. — 2. Young individual (in spirits), from unknown 

 locality. Lidth de Jeude. Long: head and body 22 c. m., 

 tail 15 cm. 



3. Skeleton of N°. 1. 



Illiger contents himself with giving a new name , Manis 

 gigantea, to a species which he distinguished in the follo- 

 wing short terms: »das Guineische Schuppenthier , das im 

 » Verzeichnisse Manis gigantea heisst , ist mit Unrecht mit 

 » der Ost-Iudischen Manis hraehyura verbunden ; es wird 

 »4 Fuss, dieses nur anderthalb Fuss lang." Although this 

 observation can hardly be called a diagnosis , I follow Gray 

 in applying this name to our species , because it is the 

 only African form of Manis which may to a certain ex- 

 tent be compared with an Indian species : it is thus very 

 probable that Illiger actually had a specimen of our species 

 before him. 



5. Manis teniminckii. 



1832. Manis temminckii Smuts. Enumeratio mammalium 

 capensium. p. 54. T. III. figs. 1 and 2 (Cranium). 



Notes from the Ijeyclen Museura, Vol. IV. 



