LONG-TAILED MAN IS. 
those which they dig in the earth, where the 
females bring forth their young. They are 
two extraordinary species ; not numerous, and 
very useless. The oddness of their form 
seems to be intended to constitute the last 
shade between the figure of quadrupeds and 
that of reptiles." 
Such is Buffon's account, in which he has 
egregiously erred respecting the number of 
toes, as is sufficiently obvious from the Lin- 
nsan names alone of two species. To sav of 
these animals, that they are " verv^ useless," 
is at best presumptuous ; and, most probably, 
it is also false. If they destroy noxious in- 
scvTis, their utility seem.s manifest. 
Of the Long-Tailed Manis, in particular, 
which we have figured, we shall give the ac- 
count and description as published by Pen- 
nant. He infonns us, that it is the Lacertus 
Peregrinus Squamosus, of Clusius ; the Scaly 
Lizard, of Grew, the Manis Tetrada(5lyla, 
and Manis Pedibus Tetrada^tvlis, of Linnreus 
and Schreber ; and the Phatagin of BuiFoq, as 
well 
