 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Natural history - 1859 - 728 pages
...Singhalese, Caballaya, but usually known by its Malay name of Pengolin1, a word indicative of its faculty of " rolling itself up " into a compact ball, by bending...the Pengolin are armed with powerful claws, which they double in in walking like the Ant-eater of Brazil. These they use in extracting their favourite... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Natural history - 1859 - 732 pages
...mailcovered tail. The feet of the Pengolin are armed with powerful claws, which they double in in walking like the Ant-eater of Brazil. These they use in extracting their favourite food, the termites, from ant-hills and decaying wood. When at liberty, they burrow in the dry ground to a... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Natural history - 1860 - 698 pages
...Singhalese, Caballaya, but usually known by its Malay name of Pengolin1, a word indicative of its faculty of " rolling itself up " into a compact ball, by bending...These they use in extracting their favourite food, the termites, from ant-hills and decaying wood. When at liberty, they burrow in the diy ground to a... | |
 | John George Wood - 1861 - 276 pages
...Singalese, Caballaya, but usually known by its Malay name of Pengolin, a word indicative of its faculty of ' rolling itself up' into a compact ball, by bending...back into a circle, and securing all by a powerful hold of its mailcovered tail. When at liberty, they burrow in the dry ground to a depth of seven or... | |
 | John George Wood - Natural history - 1865 - 842 pages
...Singalese, Caballaya, but usually known by its Malay name of Pengolin, a word indicative of its faculty of ' rolling itself up ' into a compact ball, by bending...back into a circle, and securing all by a powerful hold of its mail-covered tail. When at liberty, they burrow in the dry ground to a depth of seven or... | |
 | John George Wood - Animal behavior - 1870 - 822 pages
...Singalese, Caballaya, but usually known by its Malay name of Pengolin, a word indicative of its faculty of ' rolling itself up ' into a compact ball, by bending...back into a circle, and securing all by a powerful hold of its mail-covered tail When at liberty, they burrow in the dry ground to a depth of seven or... | |
 | Edward Balfour - India - 1873 - 1038 pages
...of the Edentata in Ceylon, the scaly ant-eater, is called Caballaya, its Malay name of Pengolin is indicative of its faculty, when alarmed, of " rolling...all by a powerful fold of its mail-covered tail. The Singhalese regard it with aversion, one name given to it being the " Negombo devil." — Tennent's... | |
 | Tropical regions - Adventure and adventurers - 1882 - 288 pages
...also known as the Scaly Ant-eater, and by its Malay name of Pangolin — which alludes to its faculty of rolling itself up into a compact ball, by bending its head towards its stomach, curving its back into a bow, and securing itself in this position by a powerful grasp of its mail-covered... | |
 | Edward Balfour - Asia, Southeastern - 1885 - 1210 pages
...peutadaetyla of all India, species of the Edentata, the scaly anteaters. The Malay name of Pengolin is indicative of its faculty, when alarmed, of rolling...all by a powerful fold of its mail-covered tail The Singhalese regard it with aversion, one name given to it being the Negombo (devil). — Tennant ; Jerdon.... | |
 | American Oriental Society - Oriental philology - 1897 - 432 pages
...Vajracita."] 1789 SIR W. JONES, Works (1807^, 4:356. A fine young manis or pangolin. a. 1794 Id., 2:305. V. Edentata. Pengolin. — Of the Edentata the only...all by a powerful fold of its mail-covered tail.. ..Of two specimens which I kept alive at different times, one about two feet in length, from the vicinity... | |
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Pengolin *, a word indicative of its faculty, when alarmed, of " rolling itself up " into a compact ball, by bending its head towards its stomach, arching its back into a circle, and securing all by a powerful fold of its mail-covered tail. The... 
