SALOON. 
Manis, the former from India, and the latter from 
Africa ( Manis tetradactyla and pentadactyla , Linn.), Nat. Hist. 
-—very young specimens of the two and the three-toed 
Sloth (. Bradypus didactylus and tridactylus , Linn.), 
the Small Ant-eater ( Myrmecophaga didactyla, Linn.), 
from South America; and the Ornithorhynchus, or 
Duck-billed Platypus, from New Holland. 
The forms of the Armadillo and the Manis, and the 
curious shields with which they are furnished by nature, 
are sufficiently wonderful; but the structure of the Or¬ 
nithorhynchus is so anomalous, that Dr. Shaw 7 , who 
first described this “ most extraordinary genus” in the 
Naturalist’s Miscellany, hesitated whether to admit it 
into his History of Quadrupeds, in the first volume of 
his General Zoology,—for as the original description 
was given from the only individual at that time knowm, 
" it w r as ”, he tells us, (S impossible not to entertain some 
doubts as to the genuine nature of the animal, and to 
surmise, that thoqgh in appearance perfectly natural, 
there might still have been practised some arts of de¬ 
ception in its structure.” An animal, “ exhibiting the 
perfect resemblance of the beak of a duck engrafted on 
the head of a quadruped,” might well excite suspicions 
of imposture, till its claim to be received as a genuine 
production of nature was confirmed, by the arrival of 
other specimens from the same locality. 
Case 25 contains the frugivorous Bats (. Pteropi ), as 
the Egyptian Bat (P ter opus JEgyptiacus ), the Striped¬ 
eared Bat (P. marginatus ) from India, and the Kiodote 
(P. rostratus Horsf.) from Java. 
Case 26 contains the Horse-shoe Bats, peculiar for 
having a very complicated apparatus over the nostrils, 
the larger and smaller Horse-shoe Bat of England, and 
several foreign species. 
Cases 27 and 28 contain specimens of those Bats which 
are distinguished by having foliaceous, membranous ap¬ 
pendages to the nose. The membranes vary consider¬ 
ably in form and number, and the individuals which are 
furnished 
