Order and Family or
Sub-Family.

TrRAGULID ZZ.

SUID.

CDENTATA.
MANIDA.

Name.

[7 Tragulus memin
nea

18 Sus cristatus

19 Manis pentadac
ula

MAMMALS OF CEYLON-—contd.

English.

Sinhalese.

[ndian ehevrotain
or mouse deer

Miminnd or wal
miyé

I'he wild boar

Wal-ird (wild pig)

Pangolin or scaly
ant eater

Kaballéw4

Remarks.

Hornless deer of very small size,
ten to twelve inches high at the
shoulder ; the villagers drive them
like hares into snare nets.
Closely allied to the European wild
boar, 8. scrofa, from which it differs
by its larger crest or mane and by
the greater size and complexity of
the last molar in each jaw (Blanford).


The pangolin lives in burrows which
it digs by means of its powerful
fore claws, leaving them at nightfall
 to forage for white ants. When
sleeping it is rolled up tightly with
the head tucked under the abdomen
and covered by the stout tail, A
special bony process of the ster
num protects the viscera during the
involution of the body.

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