308 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



This species is found in Bengal and in the Indian 

 Islands. 



The Long-tailed Manis., (M. Tetradactyla, Lin.,) or the 

 African species, is smaller than the preceding:, and much 

 thinner, It is particularly characterized by the length of 

 the tail, which is at least double that of the body ; the tail 

 is also less bent upward, and is more flat horizontally ; the 

 scales of the body, which are smaller than in the Indian 

 species, are armed at their extremity with three very sharp 

 points, which are not found in the other species. The belly 

 and chest in this species are covered with rough brown 

 hairs. The nail of the hinder thumb is very small. 



The species is very gentle in disposition ; it lives on 

 insects which it catches by the aid of its long tongue, in the 

 manner of the Ant-eaters ; its legs being short, and the toes 

 furnished with very long nails, the animal is necessarily a 

 bad runner, and cannot escape the hunters except by hiding 

 itself in the clefts of rocks, or in its burrows. In these the 

 female brings forth, and nurses her young, secure from 

 almost all hostile attacks. 



The mammiferous character of this genus separates it 

 from the Lizards, to which, in all the other particulars of 

 its organization, it exhibits a decided approximation. 



In the Museum at Philadelphia there is an edentatous 

 animal which has been described with minuteness in the 

 annals of the New York Lyceum of Natural History, by 

 Dr. Harlan, whose account has been transcribed into the 

 Zoological Journal, The Doctor names his genus Chlamy- 

 phorus, and he distinguished his type by the specific ad- 

 dition truncatus. 



- The specific characters of this animal may be thus de- 

 scribed. The body, on the upper part, is covered with a 

 sort of leathern-like shell, and is abruptly truncated behind ; 

 the shell consists of rhomboid scales, disposed in tranverse 



