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from all the rest of the genus by having a tooth on each side in the 
intermaxillary bone. The shell has six or seven bands; its com- 
partments are smooth, large, and angular; the tail is of a middling 
length, and annulated only at the base; there are five toes to each 
foot. The Pichiy, D’Azzara, would resemble the Encoubert, only 
that its intermaxillary bone has no teeth, that its posterior shield is 
denticulated, and that the parts not defended by the shell are fur- 
nished with longer and more thickly set hairs than the others. A 
neighbouring species is the Hairy Tatou of Azzara. A third subdi- 
vision of the Tatous, or the 
Casassous, Cuv., 
Has five toes to the fore feet, but directed obliquely, so that the thumb 
and index are slender, and the latter the longest; the middle one has an 
elormous trenchant nail; the following one has also a nail, but a shorter 
one, and the last toe is the shortest of all. This form of the fore foot 
enables these animals to divide the earth, and burrow into it with rapidity, 
or at any rate to cling to it with such tenacity that it is extremely difficult 
to tear them from it. They have but eight or nine teeth on each side, 
and in each jaw. 
Das. unicinctus, L.; Le Cabas-sou propre, Buff.; Tatouay, Azz. 
(The Tatouay of D’Azzara). Has twelve intermediate bands; the 
tail long and tuberculous; the compartments of the bands and shields 
square, broader than long; five toes every where, of which the four 
anterior have enormous nails with trenchant external edges. It at- 
tains a great size. 
Priopontes, Fr. Cuv. 
These, with toes still more unequal, and with nails more enormous than 
those of the Cabassous, have throughout as many as twenty-two or twen- 
ty-four small teeth—ninety -four or ninety-six in all. Such is the 
Dasypus gigas, Cuv.; Tatou geant, Geoff.; Great Tatou, Azzar. 
Deuxieme Cabassou, Buff. X. xlv. (The Giant Armadillo). Twelve 
or thirteen intermediate bands; the tail long, and covered with tiled 
scales; the compartments square, more broad than long. It is the 
largest of the Tatous, being sometimes more than three feet in length, 
exclusive of the tail. 
Finally, we should place after the other Tatous, as a very distinct sub- 
genus, the Clamyphores. 
Cramyrnorvs, Harl., 
Which have ten teeth throughout, and five toes to each foot; the nails of 
the fore feet very large, crooked, and compressed, furnishing, as in the 
Cabassous, a powerfully trenchant instrument. The back is covered with 
a suite of transverse rows of scaly plates, without any solid shell before or 
behind, forming a sort of cuira which is only attached to the body along 
the spine. The hinder part of the body is truncated, and their curved 
there are even among the insects, some which seem to have received the faculty of 
judging and of discriminating in a higher degree than this animal.—Enc. Ep. 
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