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1820. Manis afrivana Desmarest. Mammalogie. p* 376. 



1842. Manis longicaiida Sundevall. K. Vet. Acad. Haodl. 

 p. 251. 



1843. Manis tetradactyla Gray. Catalogue, p. 188. 



1872. Manis guineensis Fitzinger. Sitzb. d. K. Ak. d. Wis- 

 sensch. Wien. p* 16; M. senegalensis Fitz* 1. c. p. 17. 



1873. Manis longicaitda Gray. Handlist, p. 6. 



Scales large. All the scales of body and tail bordered 

 with white. The body covered with 13 longitudinal rows 

 of scales. All the naked parts densely covered with rather 

 long dark-brown hairs. Tail with 44 marginal scales ; the 

 interrupted middle row of the tail consists of 34 or 35 

 scales, followed by two rows of 10 or 9 scales each. 



Hab. Senegal (Mus. Paris) ; Liberia (Buttikofer and Sala) ; 

 Coast of Guinea (Pel , Nagtglas) ; Sierra Leone (Thompson); 

 Gaboon (Fitzinger). 



Mounted specimens in the Lèyden Museum: 



1. Adult. Locality unknown. Long: head and body 35» 5 

 cm., tail 64.5 cm. — 2. Adult. Gold-coast, Dabocrom. 

 Pel. May 1846. Long: head and body 34.7 c m., tail 60.7 

 c m. — 3. Young individual. Gold-coast , Elmina. Nagt- 

 glas. Juli 1861. Long: head and body 20.5 c m., tail 35 

 c. m. 



4. Skeleton of an adult male. Liberia , Soforé-J)lace. Butti- 

 kofer and Sala. 1880. 



In 1853 (See Esquisses Zoologiques de Temminck p. 173) 

 our collection contained three specimens of M. longicamdata 

 viz. one from Senegal , one from Sierra Leone and anothét 

 from the Gold-coast. The latter is my N"* 2. My N° 1. is one 

 of the two other specimens cited by Temminck , but as it 

 bears no label , I cannot make out if it is from Senegal 

 or from Sierra Leone. The third specimen is not to be 

 found in our Museum. 



Brisson's description of this species is so correct, that 

 it cannot be confounded with any other species , although 

 the author erroneously gives as habitat Brazil and For- 

 mosa. As the thumbs of Manis longicaudata are always 



Mote* from the I^eyden IMuseum , Vol. IV. 



