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SAVANNA-LE-MAE. 
and even its muzzle to be handled, without the 
slightest attempt to bite, or any manifestation of im- 
patience.* 
After taking the foregoing notes, I made some 
careful sketches of it as it lay ; no representation 
that I have seen conveying anything more than a 
rude approximation to its general appearance.'}' The 
great size and muscularity of the expanded tail, con- 
trasted with the diminutive paws, at once strike the 
observer, and show how subordinate the latter are 
as instruments of progression. 
* The following notes of the dimensions, and colours of this indi- 
vidual were taken from it while alive : — 
ft. in. 
Total length ------ 
From muzzle to base of tail - _ - - 
Length of tail - - - - - 
Transverse diameter of tail - - - - 
Girth of middle of the body - - - - 
From muzzle to eye - - - - - 
Girth of the head - - - - - 
Breadth of body measured in the curve, from insertion of 
one paw to the other _ _ _ - 
Length of paw - - - . - 
Breadth of paw - - - . . - 
7 8 
5 10 
1 10 
1 111 
5 1 
0 6 
1 10 
1 111 
1 2 
0 51 
Colour, an uniform bluish black, rough-grained, with the cuticle 
peeling in several places, showing the colour brighter and cleaner 
beneath. Under parts slightly paler ; front of muzzle dull grey. The 
eye was very small, not nearly so large as a man’s ; the iris very narrow, 
scarcely a line wide; the pupil comparatively large, circular, blue. 
The iris of a dull greyish white. 
f The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge have just pub- 
lished a figure in their Large Series of Natural History Engravings, 
the accuracy of which I can vouch for, as it was made from my own 
drawings above alluded to. 
