262 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



The Short-tailed Manis (M. Pentadactyla, Lin. M. Bra- 

 chyura, ErxL), Buff. X. xxxiv. 



Three or four feet long ; with the tail less than 

 the body. Of the East Indies. It is the 

 Phattagen of Elien, Lib. XVI. Cap, vi. 



The Long-tailed Manis. Phatagin of Buff. (M. Tetra- 

 dactyla, Lin. M. Macroura, Erxl.) Buff. X. xxxiv. 



From two to three feet long; with the tail 

 twice the length of the body ; the scales armed 

 with points. Of Senegal, Guinea, fyc. * 



The third tribe of Edentata includes the animals 

 which M. Geoffroy has named Monotremes, because 

 they have but one external opening for the semen, 

 urine, and other excrements. Their organs of gene- 

 ration present some extraordinary anomalies ; al- 

 though without a ventral pouch, they have on the 

 pubis the same supernumerary bone as the carni- 

 vorous pouched animals ; the different canals termi- 

 nate in the urethra, which opens into a cloach, or 

 common termination, at the base of the penis, which 

 is not furnished with any pipe or conduit for the 

 semen. The only matrix consists of two trumpet- 

 shaped canals, which open separately into the 

 urethra, which conduct to the cloach. As it has 



* We have verified the habitat of the Long-tailed Manis from 

 the statement of M. Adanson, and other travellers. 



