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tail. Some species are two-toed and some are three-toed, and 

 all have the toes armed with long claws ; the) well deserve their 

 name, as the}' are excessively sluggish in habit. The living 



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FlG. 364. Dasypus sexcinclus, the six-banded armadillo. (After Vogt and Sprecht, trom 



Parker and Haswell's Manual.) 



species do not attain a great size; but some fossils, such as the 

 Megatherium, rivaled the modern elephant. Lastly we have 

 the armadillos (Fig. 364), characterized by having the bod}' pro- 

 tected by a sort of shell which consists of bony dermal plates 



FlG. 365. Glyptodon clavipes, a fossil Edentate resembling the armadillos. (After Owen, 

 from Parker and Haswell's Text-book.) 



covered by the cornified epidermis. Between the plates and on 

 the ventral side of the body are scattered hairs. On the trunk 

 there are usually a large anterior plate, a large posterior one, and 



