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" Uganda. An arboreal pangolin (presumably tricuspis) is reported 

 by Johnston (1902, vol. 1, pp. 395-396). 



"Two or three species occur in Uganda, the common representa- 

 tive being Phataginus tricuspis, a forest species. There is no reason 

 to believe that Pangolins are any less plentiful than formerly. In the 

 Mabira Forest P. tricuspis is abundant. All species of Pangolins 

 are completely protected in Uganda." (Game Warden, Uganda, 

 in litt., December, 1936.) 



Long-tailed Pangolin; Black-bellied Pangolin. Pangolin a 



longue queue (Fr.). Langschwanzige 



Schuppentier (Ger.) 



UROMANIS LONGICAUDATA (Brisson) 



Pholidotus longicaudatus Brisson, Regne animal, vol. 3, Quadr., p. 19, 1762. 



("Probably West Africa" (Allen and Coolidge, 1930, p. 606).) 

 SYNONYMS: Manis teiradactyla Linnaeus (1766); Manis macroura Erxleben 



(1777); Manis hessi Noack (1889). 

 FIGS.: Noack, 1889a, pi. 1; Johnston, 1906, vol. 2, p. 753, fig. 295; Bequaert, 



1922, pi. 25, fig. 1; Allen and Coolidge, 1930, pp. 603-605, figs. 447-449; 



Schouteden, 1930, p. [94], fig. 3a; Halt, 19346, pi. 35, figs. 1-2, and 1934c, 



pp. 726 (both figs.) and 731 (lower fig.) ; Rosevear, 1937, p. 12, fig. 3. 



The very limited amount of information available concerning 

 this species suggests that it is one of the rarest of the African 

 pangolins. 



This is "an arboreal species with a long prehensile tail, equaling 

 about two-thirds of the total length. . . . The forearms bear no 

 scales, but are covered with hair. The scales are large, yellow, and 

 on the flanks are keeled. The two inferior postscapular scales are 

 markedly larger than those adjacent to them. . . . The belly hair 

 is black in most individuals .... The whole face . . . dark brown, 

 nearly black." Total length up to 937 mm.; tail, 645. (Hatt, 19346, 

 pp. 651-652.) Thirteen rows of scales on the body; 44 marginal 

 scales on the tail; two rows of 9-10 scales before the tail tip (Mat- 

 schie, 1894a, p. 7). 



The range appears to be more or less coextensive with the Upper 

 and Lower Guinea Forest Districts of Chapin (1932, p. 90) and of 

 Bowen (1933, pp. 256, 258). Jentink (1882, p. 207) records speci- 

 mens from as far west as Senegal and Sierra Leone. Otherwise the 

 species is known from Liberia to Gabun and the northeastern Bel- 

 gian Congo. 



Liberia. The animal is pretty rare, though a number of living 

 specimens were received, including one at Soforeh Place. (Butti- 

 kofer, 1890, vol. 2, pp. 393-394.) 



Jentink (1888, p. 56) records additional specimens from Hill-town 

 and Farmington River. 



