Liberia * 



distribution, past and present, would seem to have originated 

 in Asia, and to have spread to Africa and Southern Europe, 

 rather than to have been evolved in South America. The 

 Asiatic forms are perhaps less extreme in divergence from the 

 normal mammalian type than is the case with the African 

 species of this genus. They would seem to have reached Africa 

 from India, whilst closely allied forms travelled north-westwards 

 into the Mediterranean regions. Here, in the island of Samos, 

 arc found the fossil remains (Pliocene) of a Gigantic manis, 

 three times the dimensions of the existing M. gigantea of West 

 Africa. A species indistinguishable from the existing African 

 Giant manis is found fossil in cave deposits of the Madras 

 Presidency in Southern India. 



Like the Chimpanzee, the Dorcatherium, and many other 

 forest-loving mammals, the three West African species of Manis 

 disappeared from the intervening regions of Arabia and East 

 Africa when the forests dwindled before the increasing drought 

 of the Pleistocene and modern periods, leaving only Manis 

 temmincki in the open country of East and South Africa. 



APPENDIX V 



I subjoin a list of mammals recorded from Liberia down 

 to the present time. In this list the names put in brackets are 

 those species reported on good authority to exist there, but not 

 as yet represented in any European or American museum by 

 specimens derived from Liberia. 



PRIM ATI-IS 



AT I 1IOHITY. 



Simia fiygm&us .... Biittikofer, Pye-Smith, Johnston. 

 />. Uucopry tnnus . 

 .p.fuscus) .... 



ebus fuliginosus . . . Biittikofer, Johnston, etc. 

 itliccns caltitrichns . . 



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