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be covered with a reddish grey hair». 1 Assuming that Lista 

 knew how large an Indian pangolin is, the stränge aninial 

 wbicli he saw could not have exceeded V/2 meter in total 

 length, tail inclnded. probably not even attained that mea- 

 sureinent. Lts height again could not have been even as 

 mucli as 1 /2 meter if the shape sbonld have had any simi- 

 larity with an East Indian Monis. These measurements com- 

 pared with those of >Neomylodon-» mentioned above seem to 

 show quite plainly that Lista's animal was not a »Neoniylo- 

 don». A specimen of »Neomylodon would probably not have 

 been able to disappear so rapidly, for it was 110 donbt a very 

 slow moving animal. 



All taken together it seems to me to be proved that the 

 >Neomylodon?>, the remains of which have been described above, 

 is not, nor has been an individual of the same species as 

 Lista's animal, but I suppose that the fragments obtained by 

 Ameghino were not sufficient to show this. It seems however 

 not very probable that an animal not larger than an Indian 

 pangolin should be able to carry a »peau d'une epaisseur 

 d'environ 2 ctm.», as Ameghino writes. We are, stränge! y 

 enough, not informed about the exact locality from where 

 Ameghino has received the fragments which made him invent 

 the name ■»Neomylodon listaü. They were however from 

 Patagonie australe» and might have the same origin as the 

 pieces described above, with which they seem to agree well 

 enough to allow at least a preliminary identification. 



1 Translation in »Nat. Science» No. 81 p. 324. Ameghino's original 

 words are: »C'etait selon lui un pangolin (Manis) presque egal ä celui de 

 Finde, tant par la grandeur que par son aspect general, sauf qu'au lieu d'e- 

 cailles il presentait le corps couvert avec de poil gris rougeätre» 1. c. p. 4. 





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