SYNOPSIS OF THE 



pointed ; tongue protractile ; feet with five toes formed for 

 digging; tail long; body covered with hard scales or plates; 

 and capable of being rolled up into a sperical shape. 



726. 1. M. Crassicaudata (the Short-tailed, or Indian 

 Manis.) Tail shorter than the body, thick at the base ; 

 scales forming eleven longitudinal series, about one foot 

 ten inches long in the body ; tail one foot five inches. 



Phattager, Mlian. Lacertus Indicus Squamomus. Bon- 

 iius Ind. 60. Tatu Mustelinus, Klein, Quad. 47. Manis 

 Pentadactyla, Lin. Manis Brachyura, Erxleben. Manis 

 Pangolinus, Bodd. Manis Acroura, Desrriarest, Ency. 

 Method. \ 



Grand Lezard Ecaille, Perrault, Anim. t. iii. 87. Pan- 

 golin, Buff. X. 34. Pangolin a queue courte, Cuv. Broad- 

 tailed Manis, Pennant? Quad. 254, 



Icon. Pennant, I. c. tab. 87. Schreb. 54. Buff. 34. Schreb. 

 tab, 69. Seba, Thes. i. 54. Bontius, 60. Perrault, Anim. 

 HI./. 17. 



Inhabits Bengal and the Indian Islands. 



Obs. The specimen of the Manis in the Paris Museum, 

 which Desmarest has described under the name oi M. Ja^ 

 vanica, accords with this, except in having seventeen ranges 

 of scales. 



727. 2. M. Longicaudata (Long-tailed, or African Ma- 

 nis.) Tail twice the length of the body, turned upward, 

 compressed ; scales armed with three points on their edge, 

 smaller than the preceding. 



Lacertus Squaraosus Peregrinus, Clus. Exot. 374. Ma- 

 nis Tetradactyla, Lin. Manis Macroura, Erxleb. Manis 

 Phatagus, Bodd. Pholidolus Longicaudatus, Briss. Reg. 

 Jnim. 31. Manis Longicaudata, Geoff. 



Scaly Lizard, Grew. Lezard de Clusuis, Perrault, iii. 89. 

 Phatagin, Buff. x. 



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