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Blyth, we perceived that they were Hodgson's species, and identical with 

 Blyth's Javanica, and that his leucura was true Javanica. 



This Manis appears to be the only species in Sikim, and thence extends 

 through the Indo-Chinese countries to China itself. My specimens were 

 procured about the level of 3,000 feet above the sea. In China it is called 

 Ling-li, or the Hill -carp, which I mention to show how similar resem- 

 blances appear to strike different races, the common Manis being called 

 the jungle-carp in the south of India. 



Dr. Adams* states that this Pangolin is sold in the markets at Canton, 

 its scales being considered medicinal, and the flesh is said to be excellent. 

 The same observer gives a few anatomical notices of a female procured 

 by him. This had the small intestines 10 feet 10 inches long, the large 

 intestines 10 inches ; the uterus two-horned, and the vagina long and 

 muscular. It was furnished with a sac close to the anus, opening by a 

 transverse, linear slit, studded with papillae, and with the scent of the 

 peculiar odour of the animal, which is alliaceous. 



Manis javanica, Desmarest (leucura, Blyth), inhabits Burmah, and the 

 Malayan peninsula and islands. M. leptura, Blyth, is probably African, 

 and there are several other species from that continent. 



The Ant-eaters of America, Myrmecophagidce, are clad with long hair, 

 and have long tails, with a very elongated, slender muzzle. The largest 

 species, the Maned Ant-eater, Myrmecophaga jubata, is terrestrial. The 

 Tamandua, M. tetradactyla, L., has the tail naked at the tip and pre- 

 hensile, and it ascends trees, hanging from the branches. M. didactyla, 

 L., is only the size of a rat, and is stated to have undoubted affinities 

 for the Sloths. 



The only group of Mammals not previously referred to, is that most re- 

 markable tribe, the Marsupials, MARSUPIALIA, which, with some, constitute 

 a class of nearly equal value with the previous orders, viz., the Implacentals. 

 In most of these animals the young are expelled from the uterus at a very 

 early period of their development. Incapable of motion and barely exhi- 

 biting the rudiments of limbs and other external organs, these minute 

 offspring attach themselves to the teats of their mother, and remain fixed 

 there until they have acquired a degree of development analogous to 

 that in which other animals are born. The skin of the abdomen is almost 



* Proceedings Zool. Soc. 1859, p. 132. * 



