224 Manis Crassicaudata. [No. 123. 



hind the eye to the throat the skin lies in transverse folds or creases, of 

 which the most conspicuous is formed by a continuation as it were of 

 the helix of the ear, extending round the jowl. On the belly the skin lies 

 more in longitudinal wrinkles. Between and underneath the scales on 

 all parts of the body are brownish bristly hairs, few and scattered, here 

 and there a solitary one visible. 



Colour. — Eyes black, nose dirty reddish or flesh- colour. All the bare 

 parts pale brownish- white, a little darker or smudged about the muzzle. 

 The claws a pale-horn or brownish- white. The scales pale-horny or 

 clay- colour, those on the head darker and shaded with a brownish neutral 

 tint. Under the tail also the scales are washed with a blackish tinge. 

 Soles of hind feet blackish. 



Scales. — The shape of the scale is, for the most part, on the head, 

 hexagonal: on the body a rounded four-sided outline. Some scales 

 more semi- circular, others more pointed. But all or most, so jagged 

 and broken as to be very irregular; on the tail they are more evenly 

 semi-circular. The series on each side the tail present two planes or 

 surfaces, being bent down along the middle, so as to cover both the 

 upper and under- surface of the tail. The scales are generally smooth 

 exteriorly with sharp edges, underneath they are more or less marked 

 with transverse ugae. 



General remarks on the Viscera, §c. — On opening the body, the viscera 

 did not present the irregular or peculiar formation and arrangement 

 which might have been expected from so singular an animal, and 

 the general appearance of the contents of the body struck me, as 

 far as my limited knowledge of anatomy allowed, as very like that of 

 the human subject. The heart, large, shaped as in man, with two auri- 

 cles, and two ventricles. The lungs of proportionate size, and of a 

 remarkably bright colour. Diaphragm exceedingly thick and tough. 

 The liver small, with two lobes, resting above the centre and right of 

 the stomach, but not extending so far down as the latter. The gall- 

 bladder exceedingly large, equal in size to that of a sheep. Pancreas 

 and spleen situated as in man, and well proportioned. Kidneys very 

 large. 



The stomach shewed some remarkable peculiarities. The cardiac 

 opening and pylorus apparently both on the same side, and close to 

 each other. In the region of each, the stomach immensely muscular, 



