632 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON MANIS TEMMINCKI. [June 4, 



of this rare and little-known auimal that has been seen alive in 

 Europe 1 . 



Mr. Wolf's sketch (Plate XXXIX.) will give a good idea of the 

 external appearance of the present specimen, which is a young male, 

 probably not full-grown, and with the teeth small and imperfectly 

 developed. The hairs over the whole body are nearly uniformly 

 thick, but short ; they are barely an inch in length, and of nearly 

 uniform black colour throughout, with just a shade of brown tinge. 

 The hairs on the nape of the neck and sides of the body are rather 

 longer ; those on the sides of the face are brown, and there is a 

 slight white spot at the corner of the mouth, and some white hairs 

 at the extremity of the muzzle. There is a slight white external 

 edging to both ears. There are no white rings round the feet ; but 

 the upper margins of the naked nails have a whitish appearance. 

 The irides are of a light bluish hazel, quite different from those of 

 the ordinary Tapirus terrestris, in which they are brown. 



The height of the animal at the shoulders is about 26 inches ; the 

 length from the end of the extended snout to the base of the tail 

 about 54 inches. 



There can be no question, to my mind, that Dr. Gray's Tapirus 

 leucogenys (P. Z. S. 1872, p. 483) is merely an individual variety 

 of the present species. The figure given (/. c. pi. xxi.) is altogether 

 of too brown a tinge ; and in Dr. Gray's specimen itself, which is 

 now in the British Museum, the general colour is darker and more 

 of a greyish black, and, except as regards the white sides of the jaws 

 and grey face, does not materially differ from that of our specimen. 

 As regards the white cheeks, upon which Dr. Gray lays so much 

 stress, it may be remarked that M. Roulin's "Tapir pinchaque" 

 had traces of the same colour 2 , and there are likewise traces of it in 

 our living specimen. 



The Secretary exhibited a young specimen of Temminck's Manis 

 (Manis temmincki), which had been brought from Zanzibar by Mr. 

 Frederick Holm wood, Assistant Political Agent at Zanzibar, and read 

 the subjoined extract from a letter of Mr. Holmwood referring to it : — 



" The mother of this little Pangolin came from the coast opposite 

 Zanzibar, lat. 6° S. ; but I have seen what I took to be the same 

 animal, both in Somali-land under the equator and as far south as 

 the Makna country opposite Mozambique. They always appeared 

 to burrow in hard or stony ground ; and I saw them always in the 

 daytime. 



" The mother of the specimen I send you lived three months in 

 Zanzibar. She only fed at night, and remained coiled up in a ball 

 all day. She regularly retired to the dark corner of my harness- 

 room at daylight, and left for the garden at sunset. There were 

 verv few ants ; but she seemed to get plenty of insects. She bur- 



1 Unless it be true, as stated in Mr. Jamrach's letter to 'The Times' (if 

 May 31st, that an example of the same animal has lately been acquired by the 

 Zoological Gardens of Antwerp. 



2 Vide Ann. des Sci. Nat, xtu. p. 109. 



