THE ARMADILLO. 



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by a heavy, solid coat-of-mail consisting of polygonal plates 

 soldered together immovably. 



The three following orders have by most authors been 

 placed near the Primates (monkeys, etc.), but Owen, from 



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the characters afforded by the brain, has shown that they be- 

 long at or near the bottom of the scale. Gill has shown 

 that not only by the brain, but by other characters corre- 

 lated with the low development of the brain, the Rodents, 



