These scales slightly overlie each other, and can be raised on end at the will of the animal.

In form it resembles a large lizard, or a small crocodile, more than an ordinary quadruped, but its habits are almost exactly like those of the aard-vark.

It burrows, digs open the ant-hills by night, projects a long viscous tongue among the insects, and devours them with avidity.
When suddenly overtaken, and out of reach of its underground retreat, it "clews" up like the hedgehog, and some species of the South American armadillos--to which last animal it bears a considerable resemblance on account of its scaly coat of mail.
This ant-eater is known as the "pangolin," or "manis," but there are several species of "pangolin" not African.

Some are met with in Southern Asia and the Indian islands.

That which is found in South Africa is known among naturalists as the "long-tailed" or "Temminck" pangolin (_Manis Temminckii_).
Totty soon produced a roasted "peacock," or rather a hastily-broiled bustard.