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of their 



DR. J. MURIE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO. 



01 .n..r transmutation during the posttertiary epoch. Whatever other geographical 

 1 T . ..prf .in as vet not fuUy worked out, it is quite evident that a partly similar 

 " TsoltlmZ^^^^ at one period inhabited by the two families in question. 



of the chain connecting the cainozoic with the recent Loricate fauna of 

 SoutirAmerica, the Three-handed Armadillo claims paramount interest " - 

 of its intermediate structural organization, and because of its exceptional habits, which 

 together afford a glimmering of explanation of anomalies in the Hoplophoridge or Glyp 



As a link 



this because 



todontes 



To read aright or track the significant imprint 



conformation of the 



pinal column hitherto unknown in the mammalian, indeed in the vertebrate series," 

 is Huxley puts it in reference to the latter fossUs, is of itself justification for the present 



memon* 



Biolodsts are taunted with theirs not bemg a precise 



and never can it be 



so 



till piles" of conscientious observations enable safe deductions to be drawn. It is by the 

 fruits of accumulated labour that astronomers, like the prophets of old, dare to predict the 

 Mure path of orbs whereon human foot has never trod, and eye alone seen. Thus the 

 past, the present, and the future are indissolubly linked, ai ' 

 a clearer meaning of living things. 



d every step brings to 



:uU 



tndnctus (Linn.). The latter shows 



the supraorbital bony nodules, a specific character. (Woodcut used by permission of Dr. Gray ; viae 



ISO.-,, p. 380, and B. M. Cat.) 



DESCEIPTIOK OP THE PLATES. 



Tabula XX. ' 



Fis. L Life-size representation of the animal in its usual trotting attitude. Drawn from a 



photograph 



early 

 according 



Murie from the dead 



Tab. XXI. 



Fi?. 2. A profile of the right side of the carapace, &c, when the body is rolled up but not to the utmost 



limits of its closure. 



