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corneous, triangular, iin1)iic';it,ed scales ; muzzle pointed ; tongue 

 protractile ; feet with five toes, formed for digging ; tail lon-,--^ 

 tapering, covered with scales, somewhat prehensile. 



Manis crassicaudata — The Pangolin, or Short- Tailed 

 Manis.— Plate XVII. fig. 2.— Described, vol. II. p. 360. 



Genus 7. — Chlamyphorus Harlan. 



Generic Character. — No incisory or canine teeth, grinders 

 *2| ; total 32. The two first pointed, the others flat at top, 

 and cylindrical in form ; shell composed of a series of transverse 

 plates ; five toes on the fore feet, and five on the hind ones, with 

 long laterally compressed nails ; tail short and prehensile ; lower 

 jaw articulated nearly in the same manner as the Pachyder- 

 mata. 



Chlamyphorus truncatus. — The Truncated Chlamyphorus. 

 Plate VI**. fig. i. — Body covered with a leather-like shell, 

 abiiiptly truncated behind, and with white silky hair underneath; 

 tail short, and bent under the abdomen. Length about five 

 inches. Inhabits North America. 



Tribe III — Monotrema. — No teats observable; with mar- 

 supial bones. 



Gentts 8. — Echidna. — Cuvier. 



Generic Character — Destitute of teeth, but with the palate 

 aculeated ; muzzle flat, narrow, and small ; tongue protractile ; 

 eyes small ; no external ears ; feet short, with five toes ; a 

 moveable sharp-pointed spur on the hind legs, through which an 

 acrid secretion is ejected ; tail short ; body covered with spines ; 

 large marsupial bones. Body capable of a spherical shape. 



Echidna hystrix. — The Spiny Echidna. — Plate XVII*. fig. 

 2. — Upper part of the body covered with thick spines, without 

 hairs ; under part with bristly hair, and deep brown spines, tip- 

 ped with black. About the size of a hedge -hog. Inhabits 

 New Holland. 



Genus 9. — Ornithorynchus.— i;/ttme?i6acA. 



Generic Character. — No incisory or canine teeth, grinders 

 |~1; totals. Grinders fibrous, fixed only in the gum ; having 

 a horny beak, resembbng a duck's bill ; nostrils contiguous, 



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