246 NATURAL HISTORY IN ANECDOTE.

along; but when it is in its native element, it moves with
exceeding rapidity, particularly in a gale of wind, when it
~ passes from branch to branch, and from tree to tree, with
an activity which its movements on the ground by no means
portend.”
The There are two species of the Pangolin, or

Pangolin. Manis, the long-tailed and the short-tailed, the
former being a native of Africa and the latter of the East Indies.
The long-tailed manis measures about five feet inclusive of
the tail which is about three feet long, the short-tailed manis
about four feet in all. All the upper parts of its body are
closely covered with scales of different sizes, which, as they
are ‘attached to the skin only by the lower extremity, it can
erect at pleasure, opposing to its adversary a formidable row
of offensive weapons. They are sharp at the point, and so
hard as, on collision, to strike fire like a flint. The moment
it perceives the approach of an enemy, it rolls itself up like
a hedgehog, by which means it covers all the weaker parts
of its body. The Pangolins live on ants, which they catch
by thrusting their long slender tongues into the midst of their
prey, their tongues being covered by a gummy saliva to which
the ants adhere.

The The Armadillo is a native of South America,

Armadillo. in which country there are several varieties. They
are all covered with a strong crust or shell, resembling, as
the Rev. J. G. Wood puts it, “the modified plate armour” worn
by men in the 16th century. They eat vegetables and insects,
and do good work as scavengers. They burrow with great
rapidity and when rolled up, after the manner of the hedgehog,
are invulnerable to their ordinary enemies.

The Cape The Cape Ant-Bear belongs to the Cape of

Ant-Bear. Good Hope. It differs from the ant-eaters of the
western world in many ways, being a hairy animal without
scales, its head resembling that of the deer kind, having long
ears but no horns, The length of its body which is covered