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 



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, 



