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MAKIDID^. 



little extensile, their stomach is simple, and they hare no ccecum. They 

 all inhabit South America, and live chiefly on insects. There are some 

 twenty species, divided into several genera. 



The Cape ant-eaters, Oryateropidcs, have molars, and flat claws, but 

 otherwise are similar to the true ant-eaters, and have a somewhat 

 extensile tongue. Their teeth are cylindrical and solid, but traversed by 

 numerous little longitudinal canals. The stomach is simple and the coecum 

 small. They comprise only one genus. 



The next two families are totally unprovided with teeth. 



Fam. Manxdid^, Pangolins. 



No teeth. Body and tail covered with large, imbricate, homy scales ; 

 tail long. Tongue round, exsertile. Ears small, mostly indistinct. Two 

 pectoral mammse. All feet with five toes. 



The scales are evidently, from their structure, a congeries of agglu- 

 tinated hairs. They have the power of rolling themselves into a ball. The 

 stomach is slightly divided in the middle, and they have no coecum. They 

 are found in India and Africa. 



Gen. Manis, Linnseus. 



Char. — Those of the order, of which it is the only genus. 



241. Manis pentadactyla. 



LiNN^us. — Blyth, Cat. 553. — Manis crassicaudata, Griffiths apud 

 Elliot, Cat. 47. — M. maeroura, Desmarest. — M. hrachyura, Erxle- 

 BBN. — M. laticaudaia, Illiger. — M. inaurita, Hodgson. — PangoUnus 

 typus, Lesson. — Bajar-TcU, Sansc. and H. — Bajra hapta, in some parts. — 

 Sillu, H., in other parts; also Suhinkhor. — Sal, Salu, H., in the south. — 

 Shdlmd, of the Bauris. — Armoi, of the Coles. — Kaulimdh, or Kowli manjra, 

 and Kassoli manjur, Mahr. — Alawa, Tel. — Alangu, Mai. — Vujgo Ban- 

 rohu, in the Deccan, i. e., the jungle carp. — Keyot-mach, in Rungpore, 

 I. e., the fish of the Keyots. — Kdt-pohu, or timber animal, in other parts 

 of Bengal. 



The Indian Scaly Ant-eater. 



Descr. — Tail shorter than the body, very broad at the base, with 16 or 



