

V ERTEBRATA. 



fe length. The claws are remarkably loDg and powerful. This species inhabits Brazil 



rthern parta of Paraguay. It is aever fou.nl in the open country, but keeps close to 



r, -:-. and burrows e ith Burpriaing facility. Those who are employed in collecting the 



bark frequently meet with it in the woods, and report that when any of their compan- 



, to die at a distance from the settlements, they are obliged to surround the body with 



, of stool planks to prevenl it from being scratched up and devoured by the Great 



An: . 



CAB ^SSt (| ' : -V. nurus.— < >f this there is a single species, the Tatouay, or Iwelve- 



imadolo: the Cabassou Tatouay of Gervais ; the Dasypus unicinctus of Linnaeus. Its 



brown, its ears long, its anterior claws strong, the scales thinner than in the other 



It is nineteen inches long, and as the tail is naked and looks as if rudely deprived of 



rering, it is called by the natives the Wounded Tatouay. It is found principally in 



and Brazil. 



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THE TATOU-PEBA. 



CAOHIGAMA: CacJricama. — This includes the Nine-banded Armadillo, or Peba, 



daily called Tatoi -Peba in Brazil, and which is found from Texas to Brazil. It is sixteen 



:, the tail fourteen ; the circumference of the latter at the base is six inches. The head 



. and Btraight ; the nose extremely elongated, taper, and terminated by a sort of 



lething resembling the snout of a hog; the mouth is large; the eyes small, and 



of the head; the ears long, and placed close together; the tail long and at- 



the l""_' s Bhort, and the feet small. The buckler of the shoulders extends in front over 



c, and toward the rear as far as the back, descending on each side to the elbows. 



•■I of small pieces adhering to one another, and disposed in numerous parallel con- 



baving the concavity toward the front, the first ring embracing the neck of the ani- 



buckler of th< extends from the back to the origin of the tail, and descent]- on 



to the kni i s. It is composed, as in the former case, of small pieces arranged in a great 



parallel concentric rings, passing transversely over the hips, but having their concavity 



e opposite direction from that of the rings on the shoulder, or in such a manner that 



embraces the rool of the tail. When viewed externally, the little pieces composing these 



the appearance of irregular tubercles, but when examined on the under side of the 



re found to be hexagons almost as regular as those of the cells of bees, and fitted 



another. Between the bucklers of the shoulders and croup are interposed a 



of transverse movable bands, marked with zig-zag lines forming very acute angles, 



