1870. ] MR. R. SWINHOE ON CHINESE MAMMALS, 651 
Head, ears, the under and all fleshy parts milk-white, or the 
colour of cooked pork, the nose and muzzle having a tinge of purple. 
Cheeks, throat, and underparts sprinkled with shortish stiff coarse 
hairs of a light reddish sandy colour. A few lighter-coloured bris- 
tles project from under the vertex of each scale from the occiput to 
the tail. Scales short and broad, and usually purplish brown for 
two-thirds of their length, the tip portion yellowish-grey horn- 
colour. On the sides of the body, and especially along the legs, the 
scales are placed far apart, exposing the white skin. The small 
scales on the sides of the fore legs are often sunk beneath the level 
of the bulging skin. Besides the basal vertical strize on the scales, 
there are often (on the large scales chiefly) two or three transverse 
furrows near their bases. The large scales are held to the skin by 
a fleshy nipple-like pimple on each side of them adhering to their 
basal angles. Claws dingy yellowish. 
A young male measured 21°75 in entire length; tail 8°75. Head 
comparatively shorter and deeper than in the adult. Face pinkish 
white, washed about the muzzle and borders of ears with blackish 
grey ; nose and lips purplish grey. Tongue about 2°75 long, *45 
broad, narrowing to *2, and rounded at tip ; composed of a vermi- 
form centre with fleshy side-rims, gradually flattening towards tip. 
Bare parts milky white. Reddish sandy hairs occur about the 
lower lobe of the ear (which is shaped something lke the human 
ear), the throat, and underparts; in the first two longer and more 
numerous than in the adult. Longer and coarser whitey-brown 
hairs spring in tufts of five or so from under each scale. Scales more 
uniform and compact, even on the legs, than in the adult, more 
striated longitudinally and transversely, and much darker in colour, 
resembling the side-pieces of an acorn-barnacle (Balanus). Many 
of the lateral scales of the neck, body, and legs carinated; general 
colour of scales glossy blackish brown with a tinge of sea-green, 
sometimes tipped, edged, and marked along the keels with light 
horn-colour. The basal pimples that support the scales of the 
adult are not apparent in the young animal. 
The three young ones differed in size and in the proportional 
length of their tails, and, 1 do not think, were of the same birth. 
Only one of them was suckled by the mother. They seemed to be 
of different ages. A pregnant Manis that I once examined carried 
only one young one; and I do not think that they usually have more 
than one at a birth. 
An adult male from Formosa is about a third larger than the or- 
dinary run of Amoy specimens. It has longer, narrower, and darker 
scales; and those on the legs are compact and imbricated down to 
the toes. I at first thought that this “‘ Tayowan Devil,” so called 
by the early Hollanders, was of another species ; but I can detect no 
differences in its skull. The size and colour of the scales I find very 
variable. The dark colour of the Formosan specimen is like that of 
the young Amoy animal. This may be owing to the difference of 
the earth in which it lives. The Amoy and Formosan adult skulls 
both have complete malar arches; but in the skulls of the Amoy 
young ones these gape apart, the unossified cartilage between having 
