2316 The Zoologist— October, 1870. 



regarded with impotent rage the lizard-like intruder, while ' Scales,' 

 secure in her coat of mail, bid defiance to the attacks of her canine 

 assailant. The scaly ant-eater is called by the Chinese of Quang-tung 

 ' Chun-shau-cap,' which literally means ' Scaly hill-borer.' They also 

 name it ' Ling-li,' or ' Hill-carp.' It seems to be regarded by them as 

 truly ' a fish out of water,' though it lives in the sides of the great 

 mountains. They say it lays a trap for insects by erecting its scales, 

 which suddenly closing on the entrance of flies, ants, &c., these 

 intruders are secured, and when dead, fall out and are eaten. It is 

 also said to feed upon fish, but both these stories appear to be myths, 

 something similar to those told of our own familiar ' hedge-pig ' 

 sucking the teats of cows, and impaling apples on her quills in the 

 orchards. The Manis javauica is sold in the markets of Canton, and 

 is often carried about the streets as a curiosity. The scales are 

 employed by the Chinese for medicinal purposes ; but the flesh does 

 not appear to be eaten, though it is very excellent food when roasted, 

 as I can testify from personal experience, having had a portion of the 

 defunct 'Scales' cooked. The Manis climbs very well, and can 

 suspend itself head downwards by means of its strong flat tail. We 

 fed our ' Scaly hill-borers ' on raw eggs and chopped raw beef, on 

 which they seemed to thrive. The unfortunate 'Scales' fell a victim 

 to female curiosity. Exploring the hold of the ship in one of her 

 midnight rambles, she was lost for a time, and though she at length 

 found her way back to her box, she was so exhausted by long 

 abstinence that she died of starvation." — P. 79. 



One of the most interesting, though at the same time most heart- 

 rending, discoveries made by Mr. Adams in China was that the 

 chvysalids of a Bombyx were collected to fatten ducks! think of this 

 O shades of Tseu-kwang-k'he and Hawae-nan-lsze ! Think of this 

 ye merchant entomologists who have acquired " the potentiality of 

 accumulating wealth beyond the utmost dreams of man's ambition," 

 by "introducing" the Joree, the Deo-mooga, the Tusseh, the Bughy, 

 the Kolisurra, the Munga, the Moonga, the Konkuri Mooga, and 

 other silk-worms, and by "acclimatizing" the Addakoory, the Champa, 

 the Soorn, the Kontooloa, the Digluttee, the Pattee Shoonda, the 

 Sonhalloo, and the hundred other trees which support tliese in- 

 estimable treasures; think I say of a wretched Chinaman prowling 

 about with a little sickle at the end of a long bamboo for the purpose 

 of collecting the chrysalids of the Konkuri Mooga from the boughs 



