MAMMALIA. 661 



The burrowing edentate mammals are distinguislied by a pointed 

 and elongated head. They feed upon insects, some exclusively, 

 whilst others add other food to this and feed principally upon offal, 

 as Basypus duodecimcinctus and Das. septemcinctus. Some climb 

 trees {^Myrmecophaga dldactyla and Myrmec. tetradactyla or ta- 

 'mandiia), in which they are assisted by a prehensile tail. Manis 

 javanica also climbs trees and hides in their hollows. Most, how- 

 ever, live on the ground, or some few under ground in holes which 

 they have dug. 



Manis L. Teeth none. Ears small, mostly indistinct or 

 scarcely any. Tongue round, exsertile. Body and tail covered 

 with horny imbricate scales. Tail long. 



The scaled animals live in warm countries of Asia and Africa. Their 

 skeleton has no clavicles. They can, when danger impends, roll themselves 

 into a ball, and are then protected by their scales, as the hedgehog is by 

 his spines. Compare on the species of this genus Sundevall Ofversigt af 

 Sldgta Manis, Sloclch. Vetcnsh. Akad. Handl. 1842, pp. 245 — 282, and Fo- 

 ciLLON Du genre Pangolin, Guebin Revue et Magas. de Zool. 1850, pp. 465 

 —474; PP- 513— 534. PI- 10, II. 



Sp. Manis longicaudata Shaw, Manis tetradactyla L., Manis macroura Erxl. 

 Buff. x. PI. 35 (Schkeb. Sdugth. Tab. 70), Guer. Iconogr., Mammif. PI. 

 35, fig. 4, from the coast of Guinea ; the tail is nearly twice as long as 

 the head and trunk ; the scales are large, black with yellow margin, and 

 are set upon the trunk in eleven rows. — Another species from the coast of 

 Guinea has 19 or 21 rows of scales; these are small, yellow-grey, with 

 three points behind; Manis tricuspis Eafinbsque, Manis multiscutata 

 Geay. 



In other species the tail has about the length of the trunk with the head, 

 or is something shorter. Here belongs that which lives on the continent 

 of India and at Ceylon, Manis laticauda Illig., Manis pentadactyla L. 

 (in part), Manis hracliTjura Erxl., Cuv. R. Ami, ed. ill., Mammif. PI. 74, 

 the largest known species of this genus ; Manis Temminchi Smuts, Sun- 

 DEV. 1. 1. Tab. IV. fig. 2, Smith Illustr. of the Zool. of 8. Afr., Mamm. 

 PI, 7 ; to the north of the Cape Colony, in Mozambique, also in Sennaar ; 

 — Manis javanica Desmab., Eapp, 1. 1. Tab. 11. fig. 2 ; Java, Borneo, &c. 



Myvjnecophoga L. Teeth none. Ears small, rounded and oval. 

 Body covered with hair. Tail long. 



The ant-eaters represent in the New World the scaled animals of 

 Africa and Asia. They all live in South America, in the forests, 

 and feed on ants and white ants, whose nests they tear up with 

 their large nails, and on other insects, caterpillars, &c. Their 

 extensile tongue is constantly covered with an adhesive mucus. 



