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them ; fore feet with four to five toes, hind feet with five 
toes ; nails long, formed for digging ; tail long, round ; stomach 
simple, intestines without a caecum. 
Section I.—Four toes on the fore feet; two or four teats. 
Dasypus Apar. — The Three-Banded Armadillo. 
Plate XXI. fig. 11. 
With three moveable transverse bands on the body; tail short 
and flat; with five toes on fore and hind feet; grinders ; 
two pectoral teats. Inhabits Brazil and Paraguay. 
This is the type of F. Cuvier’s genus Tatuises. 
Section II.—With five toes on the fore feet, and two pectoral 
teats. 
Dasypus sexcinctus. — The Six-Banded Armadillo. 
Plate XX. fig. 9. 
Incisory teeth grinders |-|. Having six or seven moveable 
transverse bands ; belly covered with long hairs ; tail round, 
half the length of the body; feet with five toes. Inhabits Para¬ 
guay. 
This is the type of F. Cuvier’s genus Tatous. 
Genus 4.— Orycteropus. — Geoffroy. 
Generic Character. — Without incisive or canine teeth; grin¬ 
ders g-j>, separate, formed of a bony substance, traversed longi¬ 
tudinally, by a number of parallel tubes; head elongated ; fore 
feet with four toes; hind feet with five toes, and plantigrade; 
nails strong, shaped like hoofs. The tarsi and metatarsi very 
like those of the Pachydermata. 
Orycteropus Capensis. — The Cape Ant-Eater. 
Plate XXIV. fig. 1. 
Fur pale gray, approaching to lead colour, and inclining to red 
