ARMADILLOES. 



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attached to the hip-bones by peculiar bony processes. Like a 

 mole, it leads a subterranean life. The Three-banded Armadilloes 



Fig. 18. 



West- African Pangolin (Manis tricuspis). 



(Tolypeutes) have the power of rolling themselves up into a perfect 

 ball like hedgehogs, the head and tail fitting into corresponding 

 notches in the dermal shield. Armadilloes are ground-animals. 



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