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Anteaters of some travellers, being very long, rather 

 slender, low, and long tailed animals, destitute of 

 teeth, covered with several rows of broad horny 

 scales, which they raise when rolled up for their 

 defence. They inhabit Africa, South-eastern Asia, 

 and the Australasian islands. One species was 

 known to the ancients. 



There are several species, one, the Short-tailed 

 Manis, or Manis pentadactyla, is the Phatagen of 

 ^Elian : another, the Long-tailed Manis, or M. tetra- 

 dactyla, belongs to Senegal, and others have been 

 recently described. 



In the Palatinate an ungueal phalanx* or claw 

 joint, has been discovered in the earth, of an ex- 

 tinct Manis, which must nave been, atove 20 leet in 

 length. 



