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Seven-banded Armadillo). Has only seven bands, and is smaller ; 

 its tail, also, is proportionably shorter. 



Apara, Cuv. 



The Apars have the toes of the Cachicames, and nine or t-^n teeth 

 throughout. 



Das tricinctus, L. ; Tatou Apara, Margr. ; Apar, Buff. ; Mataco, 

 Azzar. ; Schreb. LXXI, A. (The Three-banded Armadillo). Has 

 three intermediate bands ; tail very short, and the compartments re- 

 gularly tuberculated. By enclosing its head and feet between its 

 plates, it possesses the faculty of rolling itself into a complete ball, 

 like certain species of Oniscus. It is from Paraguay and Brazil, 

 and is one of those found farthest to the south. Size middling. 

 Other Tatous, as the Encouberts, 



Encoubertus, Cuv., 



Have five toes to the fore feet, the three middle of which are the longest. 

 The greater part of their tail is covered with scales, arranged in quincunx. 

 There are nine or ten teeth throughout. In this subdivision is 



Dasyp. sexcynctus and octodecimcinctus, L. : Encouhert and Cir- 



quinson, Buff. ;* Tatou poyou, Azzar. ; Buff. X. xlii, and Supp. III. 



xlii. The Six-banded Armadillo, or Encoubert {a), is distinguished 



* The Weasel-headed Tatou ofGrew; Cirquinson of Biifl'. ; Das.octodccivicinctus, L., 

 is the Encoubert, or Six-bandedArmadillo; but Grew considered the rows of scales on 

 the croup as movable. If we count them we shall find but sixteen, and his own 

 figure exhibits no more. 



^^ (a) This is the Weasel-headed Armadillo, D. musielinus, called Porjou (Yel- 

 low-hauded), and Encoubert by the French. One of these Armadilloes was recently 

 in the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park, the habits of which, as carefully observed, 

 very much resemble those of an Encoubert, in the Jardin des Plantes of Paris, 

 which have been very well described by M. Fred. Cuvier. Before giving the descrip- 

 tion of this naturalist, we may observe, that the specimen in our Zoological Gardens 

 bred yomig ones there without the slightest incoiivenience. This is an animal, per- 

 haps, the most easy of all to transport from its native climate of South America, and 

 it may be useful to captains of vessels plying on that station to be informed that a 

 little food (it is not much matter if it be animal or vegetable), with milk, will satisfy 

 this animal, and it can also endure, without any loss of health, very close confine- 

 ment. M. F. Cuvier, in his able history of the Mammalia, gives the fullowing ac- 

 count of the specimen to which we have just alluded: — " Were we to judge of the 

 intellectual faculties of the species by the individual now under consideration, wc 

 should conclude the Encoubert possesses them in a very limited degree. When he 

 is set at liberty, he goes running to the right and to the left, digging in one corner, 

 and then suddenly stopping to run and scratch in another. A sudden noise startles 

 him ; he stops to listen, but he does not seem to perceive the presence of a new ob» 

 ject, nor to distinguish a person from a stone; when he runs, he goes indiscrimi- 

 nately against every thing in his way, and passes over it', or by the side of it, with 

 equal indifference, whether the obstacle be a piece of wood, or an animal. His in- 

 difference in this respect is such, that I should be inclined to attribute it only to his 

 inexperience, to the continual slavery in which he had lived, and to the habit he had 

 contracted, of being touched and carried about in the hand from one place to another. 

 But he never learnt to distinguish the hand that fed him, and remained as unfamiliar 

 with the person who had the care of him as with any other individual. In this re- 

 spect I cannot compare him better, than to the animals of the lower classes; yet^ 



