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tainly true, but it should be borne in mind at the same time 

 that tlie armadillos, which are much more abnormal than 

 are the American ant-eaters as regards their dermal cover- 

 ing, in their dentition are less so. The Cape ant-eater, on 

 the other hand, the Aard-vark (Orycteropus), has teeth 

 formed on a type quite different from that existing in any 

 other mammal ; yet its hairy coat is not known to cxliibit 



TUE PANGOLIN (MANIS). 



any sucli strange peculiarity. Again, those remarkable 

 scaly ant-eaters of the Old World — the pangolins (Manis) 

 — stand alone among mammals as regards their dermal cov- 

 ering; having been classed with lizards by early naturalists 

 on account of their clothing of scales, yet their mouth is 



like that of the hairy ant-eaters of the New AVorld. On 

 the other hand, the duck-])illed platypus of Australia (Orni- 

 thorhynchus) is the only mammal which has teeth formed of 



