this animal,
the breast-bone being very long; the cartilage at end large, with
two long projections resembling those of the lizards. There is no
collar-bone.

NO. 480. MANIS PENTADACTYLA _vel_ BRACHYURA.
_The Five-fingered or Short-tailed Pangolin_ (_Jerdon's No. 241_).

NATIVE NAMES.--_Bajar-kit_, _Bajra-kapta_, _Sillu_, _Sukun-khor_,
_Sal-salu_, Hindi; _Shalma_ of the Bauris; _Armoi_ of the Kols;
_Kauli-mah_, _Kauli-manjra_, _Kassoli-manjur_, Mahratti; _Alawa_,
Telegu; _Alangu_, Malabarese; _Bun-rohu_ in the Deccan, Central
provinces, &c.; _Keyot-mach_, in Rungpore; _Katpohu_, in parts of
Bengal; _Caballaya_, Singhalese.

HABITAT.--Throughout India. Jerdon says most common in hilly
districts, but nowhere abundant. I have found it myself in the
Satpura range, where it is called _Bun-rohu_.

[Illustration: _Manis pentadactyla_.]

DESCRIPTION.--Tail shorter than the body, broad at the base,
tapering gradually to a point. Eleven to thirteen longitudinal rows
of sixteen scales on the trunk, and a mesial line of fourteen on the
tail; middle nail of fore-foot much larger than the others. Scales
thick, striated at base; yellowish-brown or light olive. Lower side
of head, body, and feet, nude; nose fleshy; soles of hind-feet dark.

SIZE.--Head and body, 24 to 27 inches; tail, about 18. Jerdon gives
the weight of a female measuring 40 inches as 21 pounds.

This species burrows in the ground to a depth of a dozen feet, more
or less, where it makes a large chamber, sometimes six feet in
circumference. It lives in pairs, and has from one to two young ones
at a time in the spring months. Sir W. Elliot, who gives an
interesting detailed account of it, says that it closes up the
entrance to its burrow with earth when in it, so that it would be
difficult to find it but for the peculiar track it leaves (_see_
'Madras Journal,' x. p. 218). There is also a good account of it by
Tickell in the 'Journal As. Soc. of Bengal,' xi. p. 221, and some
interesting details regarding one in captivity by the late
Brigadier-General A. C. McMaster in his 'Notes on Jerdon.' I have
had specimens brought to me by the Gonds, but found them very
somnolent during the day, being, as most of the above authors state,
nocturnal in its habits. The first one I got had been kept for some
time without water, and drank most eagerly when it arrived, in the
manner described by Sir Walter Elliot, "by rapidly darting out its
long extensile tongue, which it r