MAMMALIA—CHLAMYPHORUS. PeiziT) 
equal in number. Like the ant-eater, the pangolin is also toothless, and 
has a long cylindrical tongue, which it uses in the same manner as that 
animal to procure the insects on which it subsists. When the pangolin 
approaches an ant hill, it lies down near it, concealing as much as _ possible 
the place of its retreat,-and stretching out its long tongue among the ants, 
keeping it for some time immovable. These little creatures, allured by its 
shining appearance, and the unctuous substance with which it is smeared, 
instantly gather upon it in great numbers; and when the pangolin supposes 
that it has a sufficiency, it quickly withdraws the tongue, and swallows 
them at once. This operation it repeats till it is satisfied, or till the ants, 
grown mere cautious, will be no longer allured to their destruction. The 
ant-eaters are found in America; the pangolin and the phatagin, in the East 
Indies, and in Africa, where the negroes call them quogelo. They eat their 
flesh, which they reckon a delicate, wholesome food; they also use their 
scales for different purposes. Their mode of killing it is by beating it with 
clubs. The pangolin and the phatagin have nothing forbidding but their 
figure; they are gentle, harmless, and innocent; they feed upon insects 
only ; they never run fast, and can only escape the pursuit of men by hiding 
themselves in hollow rocks, or in holes which they dig for themselves; they 
are two extraordinary species, not numerous, nor very useful; their odd 
form seems to place them as an intermediate class betwixt the quadrupeds 
and the reptiles. 
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fia— cen discovered only within the last five years. From the tip of the 
nose to the root of the tail, it measures but five inches and a quarter; its 


1 Chlamyphorus truncatus, HAntaN. This animal, which is the only one of the genus, 
has sixteen upper and as many lower teeth, all molars; the two first in each jaw pointed, 
the rest flat and cylindrical ; shell composed of a series of transverse plates; toes five 
before and behind, with compressed nails ; tail short, turned downward. 
