THE 



FOUR-TOED MANIS. 



Generic Character. 



No Teeth. 



Tongue cylindric and extenfile. 

 Mouth narrowed into a fnout. 

 Body covered with fcales. 



Specific Character, &c. 



MANIS with tetrada&ylous (or four-toed) feet. 



Lin. 

 LONG-TAILED MANIS, 



Pennant. Hiji. Quadr. p. 504 



This fpecies of Manis makes fo very near an approach 

 to the Manis Pentadadtyla, figured in a former number 

 of this work, that it has been regarded by fome Natu- 

 ralifts as a variety rather than a diftindt fpecies ; and 

 Linnaeus in his Syftema Naturae, after giving its fpecific 

 charadter, obferves that it isalmoft too nearly allied to 

 the other to be regarded as diftindt. The length of the 

 tail however, which in all the fpecimens I have ever ob- 

 ferved, very greatly exceeds the proportion of the fame 

 part in the former fpecies, as well as the more oblong 

 and even acuminate form of the furrowed or ftriated 

 fcales, together with a greater degree of Oenderncfs in 



the 



