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unmHl with strong, slightly curved, conical, obtusely pointed nails. 

 The third, longest, then the second and fourth; the first and fifth 

 much shoi'ter than the others. 



Genus TATU Blumenbach (1799). 

 I'alii 15LUMENI5ACH, Iliuulb. tier Naturgescli., ITDU, p. 7o. 



T>/pc. — Dasypus no oemchictiin Linnanis. 



Characters, those of the subfamily Tatuina^ given above. 



This genus differs from all the other armadillos in having a pair 

 of inguinal mammae, in addition to the usual pectoral pair, and in 

 ]oroducing a large number (4 to 10) of young at a birth, all the others 

 having usually but one or two. {Flower and Lydekker.) 



TATU NOVEMCINCTUM (Linnaeus). 

 TEXAS ARMADILLO. 



[I)as!JI>i(><] iwvciiiciHctii.s LiNN.Kus, Syst. Nat.. lOtli ed., I, 175S. p. 51. 

 [Tatii] novenicinctHS, Blumenbach, Handb. der Naturgesch. 1799, p. 73. 

 TatKsia iiorciiicinctiis. True. Proe. U. S. Nat. Mus., VII (1884), 1885, p. 588. 

 'Tata novciiicinctus, T. S. Palmer, Proc. Biol. Soc, Wash., XI, p. 174, June 



9, 1897. 

 Tatii iiorciiiciiictuiii, Miller and Rehn, Proc. Post. Soc. Nat. Hist., XXX, 



No. 1, Dec. 27, 1901, p. 11. 

 Caha.ssoiis iiorcDi-ciiictus, Elliot, Field Col. Mus., Zool. Ser., II, 1901, p. 4, 



pi. I (Synop. Mam. N. Am.). 

 Tatn iiovcniciiictiiDi. Elliot, Field Col. Mus., Zool. Ser., IV, 1904, p. 33, 

 flgs. 9, 13 (Mam. Mid. Am.). 

 2'ype-locality. — Brazil, South America. 



Distrihution. — Rio Grande of Texas, west to Devils River, south 

 across Mexico. This species is found on the Mexican border in the 

 Tamaulipan Troi)ical Tract. 



Description. — Dentition: M. ^^ or ^"/ = 32 or 28. Shield composed 

 of eight movable scutes in the middle and nine on the sides. Tail 

 as long as body Avithout head; covered by twelve rings, and not 

 enveloped in a cone. Length, 240 mm.; tail vertebne, 90; hind foot, 

 oO; ear, 20; carapace, 320 by 400. Cephalic shield pale brown; 

 carapace black, with the scutes on the sides yellowish white; tail 

 l)rownish l)lack, Avith the anterior half of scutes yellowish white; ears 

 brown; toes yellowish, claws white; skin of head flesh color with 

 a few yellowish hairs. 



Ilahitat (ind ludjIfK. — Armadillos were (]uite common in the region 

 about Fort Clark, Kinney County, Texas. They burrow in oak mats 

 that grow along water courses. The Seminoles, who esteem them 

 highly as food, hunt them at night with dogs trained for the ])ur- 

 pose. Many carapaces Avere seen nailed to huts of the Seminole 

 Indians. 



