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and even its muzzle to be handled, without the 

 slightest attempt to bite, or any manifestation of im- 

 patience.* 



After taking the foregoing notes, I made some 

 careful sketches of it as it lay ; no representation 

 that I have seen conveying anything more than a 

 rude approximation to its general appearance.f The 

 great size and muscularity of the expanded tail, con- 

 trasted with the diminutive paws, at once strike the 

 observer, and show how subordinate the latter arj 

 as instruments of progression. 



* The following notes of the dimensions, and colours of this indi- 

 vidual were taken from it while alive : — i 



Colour, an uniform bluish black, rough-grained, with the cuticle 

 peeling in several places, showing the colour brighter and cleaner 

 beneath. Under parts slightly paler ; front of muzzle dull grey. The 

 eye was very small, not nearly so large as a man's ; the iris very narrow, 

 scarcely a line wide ; the pupil comparatively large, circular, blue. 

 The iris of a dull greyish white. 



f The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge have just pub- 

 lished a figure in their Large Series of Natural History Engravings, 

 the accuracy of which I can vouch for, as it was made from my own 

 drawings above alluded to. 



