THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



NATURAL HISTORY 



APRIL, 1840. 



Art. f. — View ofthz Fauna of Brazil, anterior to the last Geologi- 

 cat Revolution. By Dr. Lund. 



( Continued from page 112.^ 



1 NOW pass on to the most abundant of the extinct genera of 

 the Armadillo tribe, whose numerous remains, in several 

 cases, have enabled me to determine with accuracy its place 

 in the family, as well as its relations to existing species. 

 This animal constitutes, in many points, a perfectly connect- 

 ing link between the genera Dasypus and Euphractus ; but in 

 other points it differs from all living genera of this family. 

 Like Dasypus, it has only four toes on the fore-foot ; and 

 the construction of its fore and hind feet is very much the 

 same in all the principal characters : except that the bones 

 are much shorter, and the claws broader. On the other hand, 

 the remaining bones of its extremities, as also those of its 

 body, correspond in the most striking manner with those of 

 Euphractus ; which it moreover resembles in the structure 

 of its corslet. 



In connection with these remarkable correspondences to 

 existing genera, one cannot help being greatly astonished at 

 the entirely dissimilar structure of the dental system, pre- 

 sented by the fossil species, and which compels us to ascribe 

 to this animal totally different habits and food, from those 

 which we know to belong to the living species. With re- 

 spect to the habits of these latter great contradictions occur, 

 not only in the works on natural history, but even in the 

 accounts I have collected from the natives. The country- 



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