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Show NEW ANIMAL. I Its ITUle Tarn. Utile 11.11., sa It U-a I la hita Avarrira. Natives of the Interior of Hraxll have been I'xclllug naturalist for years 'with accounts of a lertaln wondsrful , animal, which, from their description, hid never let been seen by civilized I man llr Klorenllno Ameghlno, an Italian natnrallst, who has been on the continent pursuing reseurihes tot & length of time nt last determined to penetrate to the regions In hlrh the beast was said to have been founil and see If there was an) thing In it Kninun I. Ma, n Chilean, since deteus ed, had told tbe scientist of an in-counter in-counter with an animal Hiinrthlng of the order described. He had come nro It In the dark, and, although he fired point-blank nt It from a point less than five ) arils, his bullet made no nppirrut Impression Armed with these particulars llr Ameghlno set out some time last winter, and. after traveling trav-eling hundreds of mill's Into tha heart of llrnill, nt Inst came upon the ob ject of his sinrrh He raw the animal thrte dlffeirut nights before bringing It down The n pelted manner In j Willi h his shut, i.ld not ill ronvlurel him Hint the itports of the native ( as to the Itupenetruhllll) of the animal's ani-mal's skin must hnve been rorrrrt, a belkf In whlili, ufter securing the beast by n shot In the eye, and then finding that the hide could not be penetrated pene-trated by a hatchet, he was more than confirmed. The Naom)lodon Llstal, named by Iho doctor, partly In honor of Urn Itamon Ll.til who first saw It. nnd partly from Us characteristic, resemble re-semble more nrarl) than any other nnlmsl tho short-tailed pangolin or acaly ant cater It Is larger than the pangolin, being Mime six feet In length. The skin Is more than an Inch thick, nnd sn tough that no weapon at tbe disposal nf the scientist atifllccd to cut It Ita surfnrr shows nn epidermis, epider-mis, not real), but covered with coarse, reddlsh-gry hair an Inch nnd a half long, the ossicle being burled In the akin like paving stone In the street. The ossicle resemble those of the fomll Mylixlon, though smsller The pangolin. If It traits may be assigned as-signed to this new beast, is mora a llrnrd than a mammal They have no weapon of dcfen.e against man or the larger animals, and are an far as I known perfect!) harmless Ihe skin of tho pangolin has often been known to turn a musket ball Us habit are nocturnal, noc-turnal, and It show great timidity In tho presence of man l)r Ameghlno state his Intention of securing specimens speci-mens alive for the old world xoologl-cal xoologl-cal gardens. |