176 African Zoology. 



throat and belly covered with hair ; uose slender, head smooth, 

 let's short ; tail tapered. The colour of the whole animal cho- 

 colate. Length from nose to tip of tail fourteen inches ; length 

 of tail about forty inches. 



Inhabits Central Africa. 



Manis tetradactyla, Lin. Syst. 33. Schreb. ii. 23. tab. Ixx. 

 Le Phatagin, Buff. x. 119, tab. xxxiv. Manis Africaua, Desiu. 

 Mamm, 



Manis Temminckii, (Tcmminck's Manis.) Head short, ex- 

 tremity of muzzle without scales ; eyes small ; body and 

 tail broad, somewhat depressed and arched above ; scales 

 large, their poinis rounded or semilunar; their outer sur- 

 face finely striated, longitudinally, and of a dull green-colour 

 tinted with brown, except towards the points, where each is 

 more or less completely margined with yellowish white or pale 

 fawn colour. Tail obtuse at the point, with five distinct rows 

 of scales towards its base, and four towards its extremity ; 

 nails pale horn-coloured or yellowish, the three middle ones of I 

 fore-feet much the longest. Length from nose to base of tail 

 about seventeen inches ; length of tail eighteen inches. 



Inhabits Southern Africa, — eastward of Latakoo. 



Obs. Never having had an opportunity of examining a perfect specimen 

 of this animal I am unable to state what are the appearances of the 

 under-parts of the body, or how many rows of scales exist on the back. 



Order PACHYDERMATA. 



Two or three kinds of teeth ; four extremities with the toes 

 variable in number and furnished with strong nails or hoofs ; 

 no clavicles ; organs of digestion not formed for ruminating. 



Fam. proboscidea. 



Genus Elephas. LhuKEUS. 

 Incisors or tusks I, canines ^l, molars ^i, — 10. Tusks slightly 

 arched towards their extremities, composed of ivory -incased tvith 

 a crust of enamel; molars composed of vertical and transverse 

 lamince covered by enamel; five toes on all the feet; nose 

 elongated into a cylindrical proboscis, with a moveable appendage 

 at its termination, serving the purpose of a finger \ head large; 

 neck short; eyes small, lateral ', ears extremely fiat and very 

 large ; body large and massive ; tail short, tufted at the end ; 

 mammce two. 



Elephas Africanus, Cuvier. (African Elephant.) Skin rough 

 and nearly destitute of hair ; head round ; forehead convex ; 

 ears much larger than in the Asiatic Elephant, and descending 



