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3. W. C. Thorburn, Esq. of Goalpara. A few snakes, shells, and insects, from 

 that locality. 



4. R. W. G. Frith, Esq. A living specimen of Manis pentadactyla, L. (v. 

 bracliyura, Erxl., &c), procured in Chota Nagpore. This interesting animal arriv- 

 ed in Calcutta in a very weak state, having (as I believe) taken no nourishment 

 from the time of its capture, about eight days (or more) previously ; and Mr. Frith 

 kept it two days, without his noticing any food that was left with it, or the ants'- 

 nests to which it was taken, though it lapped water freely : it was then made over 

 to me, turned loose into a covered enclosure from which it could not escape even 

 by burrowing, left at liberty to burrow, and a mess of chopped meat and egg, mixed 

 with boiled rice, was left with it, which it ate heartily of during the night ; and that 

 I believe was the cause of its death the following day, after its long previous absti- 

 nence. I mention these details to show how another living Pangolin should be treat- 

 ed : for I have little doubt that I could have got it to live, had it not been so 

 far exhausted. The gait of this animal was remarkable, and gave altogether an- 

 other notion of the creature from what could be derived from any published figure 

 of it I have seen : the back is much arched, and the limbs straight and pillar-like. 

 The walking figure in pi. — was sketched from life ;* and the other figure represents 

 the attitude in which it died. It showed little disposition to burrow in the ground, as 

 I apprehend from weakness ; but was content to bury the fore portion of its body, 

 leaving the croup and tail exposed above the surface. Both skin and skeleton have 

 been set up, and the internal parts preserved in spirit.f 



In XI, 453 et seq. (1842), I treated of the genus Manis, enumerating, as esta« 

 blished species, the M. pentadactyla, L., — M. Temminckii, Smuts (of S. Africa, 

 nearly allied to the preceding species), — M.javanica, Desm., — and M. tetradactyla, 

 L. (v. macroura, Erxl.), — which are all the species that are noticed in M. Schinz's 

 Synopsis Mammalium (1845). I described, however, upon that occasion a M. 

 leptura, nobis ; and Mr. Gray has since described a M. mnltuculata from W. 

 Africa (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1843, p. 22), of which Mr. Fraser has given an interest- 

 ing notice (ibid. p. 53). M. leptura has the tail as long as the head and body, 

 of more slender form than in a species received by the Society from Java (but 



the same." In the birds, at least three fine species of Gullinacea seem peculiar to Ceylon, 

 viz. two Jungle-fowls, one of which I take to be Gallus Lafayettei, and the other is C. 

 Stanleyi, Gray ; and the so called Red-legged Partridge of Ceylon, Galloperdix bical- 

 earatus,( Pen.), which is quite distinct from G. lunulatus, (v. Hardwickii, v. nivosus), 

 of Continental India. 



* The plate, however, is less characteristic than the original bare outline sketch. 



t Dr. Cantor (in XV, 259,) describes a peculiar structure adherent to the outer coat 

 of the stomach of the Pangolin of the Malayan peninsula, which did not exist in the 

 above specimen ot ' M. pentadactyla ; neither can I find a trace of if. in a full grown foetus 

 of the Pangolin of Arracan, examined for the purpose; the Arracan Pangolin being 

 closely allied to, if not identical with, the Malayan peninsula species. 



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