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Aard-Vaarks. Of the Pangolins about seven species are 

 generally acknowledged by naturalists, of which three 

 belong to the Oriental and four to the Ethiopian Region. 

 The species of each region belong to different sections of 

 the genus. The Oriental Section consists of the Javan 

 Pangolin (Manis javanica), which ranges from Burma 

 through the Malay Peninsula to Java and Borneo ; the 

 Chinese Pangolin (M. aurita) from China, Assam, and 

 Nepal ; and the Indian Pangolin (M. pentadactyla) of India 

 and Ceylon. Of the four species of the African section 

 only one (Temminck's Pangolin) occurs out of the West 

 African Sub-region, extending into Eastern and Southern 

 Africa. Finally we have the Orycteropodidx, or Aard- 

 Vaarks, which comprehend only the single genus Orycte- 

 ropus, with two species entirely restricted to the Ethiopian 

 Region, and forming one of its most characteristic types of 

 mammal-life. 



Section IV. — Summary and Deductions 



Table of the families and genera, showing the number 

 of species in each Region. 



