LONG-TAILED MANIS. 
well as of the Ashmolean, British, and Leve- 
rian Museums. 
It has, he says, a slender nose ; that, and 
the head, being both smooth. Thebodv, legs, 
and tail, are guarded by large, sharp-pointed, 
striated scales. The throat and belly are co- 
vered with hair. It has short legs ; and four 
claws on each foot, one c^f wdiich is very 
small. The tail is a little taper^ but ends 
blunt. The colour of the whole animal is a 
chocolate. 
** These animals inhabit the islands of India. 
They grow to a great length : that whicli was 
preserved in the ?\Iuscum of the Royal S(;ciety 
was a yard and a half long ; from the tip f;f the 
nose, to the- tail, was only fourteen inches, the 
tail itself was a ycird and half a cpartcr. 
The Long-Tailed Manis so near y resembles 
the Short-Tailed Manis, that they liave, bv 
some naturalists, baen regarded rather as va- 
rieties than distinct species; and Linnaeus, in 
Ins Systema T^atura?, after noticing the specific 
characlcr of the Manis Tetradadlyla, remarks, 
that 
