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tail black and buslij". Length from nose to base of tail sixteen 

 inches; length of tail two inches and a half; length of ears 

 three inches and a quarter. 



Inhabits South Africa, — rocky situations. 



Obs. The colours in this species vary considerably, but in all speci- 

 mens the extremities anil base of tail are always dark rufous, and the 

 tip of the latter black or brown-black. The hind-legs are much shorter 

 than in the true liai is, and its manners connect it closely with the rabbit. 



Order EDENTATA. 



No incisors in either jaw, canines in some but not in all ; 

 some Genera with only cheek teeth, others without any teeth ; 

 toes varying in number and armed with strong nails ; orbits and 

 temporal fossae united. 



Genus Orycteropus. Geoffroy, 



Incisors g, canines H, molars II — 26. Molars separate, without 

 roots or distinct crowns, formed of bony substance, traversed 

 longitudinally by parallel tubes ; head elongated ; toes four on 

 the fore-feet and Jive on the hind-ones; the hind-foet planti- 

 grade; nails very thick and strong, 



Orycteropus Capensis, T>esm. (Cape Ant-eater.) Hair short, 

 coarse, and scanty upon the body in old individuals, plentiful 

 in young ones : head yellowish brown ; body dull brown or 

 rufous brown ; extremities black or black-brown, the hair 

 longer than on the body ; upper-surface of tail at root the same 

 colour as back, under-surface and elsewhere yellowish white ; 

 outer-surfaces of ears towards bases, and inner edges, thinly 

 covered with short, white or tawny hair ; eyes dark brown ; 

 nails light horn-coloured. Length from nose to base of tail 

 four feet eight inches ; length of tail about two feet ; length of 

 ears seven inches. 



Inhabits South Africa. 



Myrmecophaga Capensis, Thunb. in Mem. de V Acad, de 

 Peter sb. iii. p. 301. Aard Vark of the Cape Colonists. 



Genus Manis. LinncBUS.. 



Toothless, body elongated, and, together with the tail, covered 

 with hard corneous imbricated scales or plates ; muzzle long ; 

 tongue protractile ; eyes small; feet with five toes.; nails of the 

 anterior ones long, and formed for digging. Animal possessing 

 the power of rolling itself into a spherical shape. 



Manis longicaudata, Geoff. (Long-tailed Manis.) Body, 

 legs, and tail covered with large pointed $triatcd scales ; the 



