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the Lower to the Upper Congo. He also records (1935, p. [62]) a 

 specimen from the Kivu region. 



The several species of pangolins do not appear numerous any- 

 where in the Belgian Congo. The natives do not hunt them espe- 

 cially, and the Europeans not at all. Brush fires alone destroy a 

 great many. (A. J. Jobaert, in litt., November 10, 1936.) 



South African Pangolin ; Scaly Anteater. I jzer Magauw ; 

 letermago (Boer) 



SMUTSIA TEMMINCKII (Smuts) 



Mani's temminckii Smuts, Enumeratio Mammalium Capensium, p. 54, pi. 3, 



figs. 6-7, 1832. ("E regionibus, ultra Latakou sitis" = probably the region 



north of Litakun, British Bechuanaland.) 

 FIGS.: A. Smith, 1849, pi. 7; Royal Nat. Hist., vol. 3, p. 229, fig., 1894-95; 



Matschie, 1895, p. 143, fig.; W. L. Sclater, 1901, vol. 2, p. 217, fig. 148; 



Fitzsimons, 1920, vol. 4, pi. facing p. 233. 



Though widely distributed in South and East Africa, this seems 

 to be a decidedly scarce animal. 



"General form somewhat elongated and lizard-like, covered every- 

 where, except on the lower surface of the head and body and inside 

 the limbs, with a series of over-lapping broad scales of a dark horn- 

 brown colour with paler edges and tips; head very small and 

 pointed," covered above with small scales; "no external ear . . . . 

 Across the middle of the back eleven rows of scales . . . ; limbs 

 short each with five toes and claws .... Tail very broad," cov- 

 ered above and below with 4-5 rows of scales. Head and body, 24 

 inches; tail, 18. (W. L. Sclater, 1901, vol. 2, pp. 217-218.) 



"The scaly ant-eater is chiefly found to the north of the Orange 

 River, though said to occur rarely in Prieska and the other districts 

 just south of the river; from here it extends through the Orange 

 Free State, the Transvaal, Bechuanaland, the Kalahari and German 

 South-west Africa to Rhodesia; north of the Zambesi it occurs in 

 South Angola, Nyasaland and East Africa as far as Somaliland." 

 (W. L. Sclater, 1901, vol. 2, p. 218.) Matschie (1894, p. 5) extends 

 the range north to southern Kordofan (about lat. 17 N.). 



"Well known in the Orange Free State (Ventersburg Albany 

 Museum) , the Transvaal, Bechuanaland, Ngamiland, and Southern 

 Rhodesia." Also "recorded from Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, 

 and according to Sclater Uganda, East Africa and Somaliland." 

 (Shortridge, 1934, vol. 2, p. 665.) 



Cape Province and British Bechuanaland. At Litakun, British 

 Bechuanaland, Burchell (1824, vol. 2, pp. 423-424) observed a skin 

 lying on the hedge of a native cattle enclosure, "placed there . . . 

 to preserve the cattle from the evil effects of sorcery. . . . When- 



