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under a branch. In grasping a branch, the fore-finger of the 
hinder foot, or hand, goes with the thumb, like a parrot’s foot. 
This an’angement of the fingers is very discernible in fresh 
specimens, but in the dried limb it does not appear. 
Order Edentata. 
Fam. Manilla. 
Gen. Mania. 
Mania Javanica (?). 
Peugoling (Malay name). 
• Covered with scales, except the lower parts of the head, the throat, 
the belly, and the inner sides of the legs, which parts are thinly 
covered with scattered brownish yellow hairs ; a few bristly hairs 
also appear here and there projecting beyond the scales. 
There are 15 rows of scales on the body, and 29 marginal scales 
on the tail. 
The scales on the back are large, rather rounded, and broad at 
the tip, they are striated at the base, and smooth at the end. The 
scales below the body are narrower and more pointed, they are also 
striated and carinated. 
Length from tip of the nose to the end of the tail, 2 feet 3 inches. 
„ of the tail, 11 inches. 
Breadth of the under surface of the tail at the base, 2 inches 10 
lines. 
Length from ear to tip of nose, 2|- inches. 
„ nose to eye, barely 1 inch 7 lines. 
„ eye to ear, 9 lines. 
The eyes are placed below the line of the scales on the head at 
about the distance of 3 lines. 
The Malay name “ Pengoling” signifies an animal rolling 
itself up, which this creature occasionally does, presenting only 
its impenetrable scales. It inhabits hollow trees, and feeds on 
ants alone, of wliich its stomach contains thousands ; it is a 
slow-moving animal, but very strong, and b)'' means of its 
powerful prehensile tail, which is furnished with a little, naked 
callosity, climbs tolerably well among rocks and dead trees ; 
the tongue is excessively long, round, and fleshy, and is used 
to obtain its food by being laid across the tracks of ants, wliich 
sticlj to a glutinous secretion with wbicb it is provided ; its 
favourite prey is said to be a black species of Termes, which is 
the chief agent in destroying dead-wood in Labuan, and whose 
colonies are extraordinarily numerous. The individual from 
