M A N I S. 
Lacertusrquamorus,^/i«^'z;^, Pholidotus pedibus anticis et po- 259. Short- 
60. Pet. Gaz. tab. xx. fig. u. fticis pentadadtylis, fquamis fub- tailed. 
Armadillus fquamatus major, rotundis. Brijfon quad. 18. 
Ceilanicus , feu Diabclus Tqjova- Manis pentacladtyla, Lin.fyfi . $ 2 . 
tiicus didhis Seb. Muf. I. liii. Le Pangolin de Buffon, %, 180. 
liv. Klein quad. 47. tab. xxxiv, AJh. Muf, 
M. with back, fides and legs, covered with blunt 
fcales, with briflles between each: five toes on each 
foot: tail not longer than the body: ears not un¬ 
like the human : chin, belly and infide of the legs, 
hairy. 
Inhabits the iflands of India, and that of Formofa . 
The Indians call it Pangoelling •, and the Chinefe , 
Chin Chion Seick ** Feeds on lizards and infeds : 
turns up the ground with its nofe: walks with its 
claws bent under its feet: grows very fat: is 
efteemed very delicate eating: makes no noife, only 
a fnorting. 
Perhaps is a native of Guinea: the Quogelo of the 
Negroes \ which Fes Mar chads -f fays grows to the 
length of eight feet, of which the tail is four: lives 
in woods and marfhy places : feeds on ants, which 
it takes by laying its long tongue crofs their paths, 
that member being covered with a fticky faliva , fo the 
infeds that attempt to pafs over it cannot extricate 
themfelves : walks very Howly: would be the prey 
of every ravenous bead:, had it not the power of 
rolling itfelf up, and oppofing to its adverfary a 
* Dalhman in AB. Stockh. 1749. 265. 
t Voyage du des Marcbais, I. 200. Burbot, 114. 
formidable 
