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absolutely helpless on the ground, not being capable of 

 walking on the bottom of the foot. 



Waterton says that, in climbing, the ai {Bradypus tri- 



Fig. 288. — Pangolin (Manis longicawiaia) robbing white-ant nests. 



dadylus, Pig. 287) uses its legs alternately; that its hair 

 " is thick and coarse at the extremity and gradually tapers 

 to the root where it becomes fine as a spider's web. His 



Fig. 289.— I>asi/p«s tricinctus. From Lutken's Zoology. 



fur has so much the hue of the moss which grows on the 

 branches of the trees, that it is "very difficult to make him 

 out when he is at rest," 



