THE 
FOUR. TOED MANIS. 
Generic Character. 
No Teeth. 
Tongue cylindric and extenfde. 
Mouth narrowed into a fnout. 
Body covered with fcales. 
Specific Character, &c. 
MANIS with tetrada&ylous (or four-toed) feet. 
Lin. 
LONG-TAILED MANIS. 
Pennant. Hijl. Quadr. p. 504. 
This fpecies of Manis makes fo very near an approach 
to the Manis Pentadadtyla, figured in a former number 
of this work, that it has been regarded by fome Natu- 
ralifts as a variety rather than a diftindt fpecies; and 
Linnaeus in his Syftema Naturae, after giving its fpecific 
charadter, obferves that it is almoft too nearly allied to 
the other to be regarded as diftindt. The length ol the 
tail however, which in all the fpecimens I have e\ cr, ob- 
ferved, very greatly exceeds the proportion of the fame 
part in the former fpecies, as well as the more oblong 
and even acuminate form of the furrowed or floated 
fcales, together with a greater degree of fiendernefs in 
the 
