108 TEMMINCK’S PANGOLIN. 
in the neighbourhood of Uitenhage, on the borders 
of Caffraria *.” 
TEMMINCK’S PANGOLIN. (Manis Temminehii, 
Smuts.) 
This is a very curious, and probably unique, spe- 
cimen of a singular animal which has been partially 
described in Holland, since this individual was first 
brought to Europe. Dr. Smuts, the describer, named 
it in honour of the distinguished naturalist, under 
whom he had studied whilst pursuing his courses at 
Leyden. His materials were only a skeleton and — 
some of the scaly plates with which, like the other 
pangolins, this species is covered. The greatest pe- 
culiarity of this one is the shortness of the head, as 
compared with the ordinary dimensions of that part 
in the other pangolins ; it bears nearly the same pro- 
portion to that of other species, as the head of the 
weasel-headed armadillo does to that of the six- 
banded, and thus shows a relation of parallelism, or 
analogy between the species of the armadilloes and 
pangolins, quite in accordance with the remarkable 
affinity of their outward form, and of the hardened 
and scaly cases by which they are protected against 
external force. The great breadth of the body is 
another peculiarity of this animal; and so is the 
breadth of its tail, which is at the base as broad as 
the body, and is much less narrow towards its ex- 
tremity, than in the other pangolins. ‘The shortness 
fig Zoological Transactions, Part I. p. 29—33. 
