72 The Naturalist in La Plata. 
their fables of the ‘Uncle Remus” type, repre- 
senting it asa versatile creature, exceedingly fertile 
in expedients, and duping its sworn friend the fox 
in various ways, just as ‘‘ Brer Rabbit’”’ serves the 
fox in the North American fables. 
The hairy armadillo will, doubtless, long survive 
all the other armadillos, and on this account alone 
it will have an ever-increasing interest for the 
naturalist. I have elsewhere described how it 

Armadillo killing Snake, 
captures mice ; when preying on snakes it proceeds 
in another manner. A friend of mine, a careful 
observer, who was engaged in cattle-breeding 
amongst the stony sierras near Cape Corrientes, de- 
scribed to me an encounter he witnessed between 
an armadillo and a poisonous snake. While seated 
on the hillside one day he observed a snake, about 
twenty inches in length, lying coiled up on a stone 
five or six yards beneath him. By-and-by, a hairy 
