BROAD-TAILED MANIS. 
183 
in the above work was found about a teacupful 
of small stones, which it is supposed to have swal- 
lowed for the purpose of facilitating digestion. It 
was only thirty-four inches long from the nose to 
the end of the tail ; and a young one was found in it 
The figure given in the Asiatic Researches is 
considered as a variety, differing a little in the 
proportion of some of its measurements from that 
described by the Count de Buffon, &c. In re- 
ality, it should seem to be the variety slightly de- 
scribed and figured in the Philosophical Transac- 
tions; and which Mr. Pennant has introduced 
into the last edition of his History of Quadrupeds 
as a distinct species, under the title of the Broad- 
tailed Manis. This we shall, in compliance with 
that excellent zoologist, describe in a separate 
a^rticle, though we think it may be doubted whe- 
ther it should be really considered as a distinct 
species. Specimens of the Manis pentadactyla 
have sometimes been seen of the length of six 
feet from the nose to the tip of the tail. 
BROAD-TAILED MANIS. 
Manis Cauda latissima, 
Manis with extremely broad tail. 
Broad- tailed Manis. Pennant ^adr, z, p. 254. 
New Manis. Phil. Trans. 60. /. 36. pi 11, 
This animal is figured in the €Oth volume of 
the Philosophical Transactions : it was killed in 
