1894.] ilAMilALS OF TJfiUGFAT. 307 



to bring home an example captured when full-grown ; I can 

 imagine the captain ordering the cage to be heaved overboard ! 

 On the other hand, the same friend told me that he once caught 

 some Young ones, and that they became so tame that they were 

 allowed to run about where they liked. 



Vesperugo montanus (Phil.) : Dobson, Cat. Bats, p. 189. 



This was the only Bat of which I brought home specimens. It 

 was common about the house, flying rather low among the ombiis 

 gums, wattles, and other trees in the patio, but not easy to knock 

 down. 



On the 3rd February, when riding across the camp and passing 

 a small group of boulder rocks, I saw a Bat on the wing about 9 a.m. 

 Of this day my Journal says : — " Blazing hot day, over 80° at 

 8 A.M., going up to 94"^ in the day, and standing at 86° at 9 p.m." 



Another species is found in Uruguay with the fur of a very 

 dark rich mahogany colour ; but I omitted to keep the very poor 

 specimen I came across and never got another. 



MuLiTA (Tatusia septemwicta). 



This Armadillo is, I hear on good authority, still numerous in 

 parts of the Department of Florida, but in Soriano where I was 

 it was uncommon. The only live specimen I obtained escaped in 

 my temporary absence ; it was exceedingly quiet and gentle in 

 its manners. The " Mulita " occasionally figures on the menu at 

 the hotels in Montevideo. 



Tatu (Tatusia novemcincta) . 



The Tatu is said to be found outside the monte along the Eio 

 Negro. I saw the skull of a freshly-killed specimen hanging up 

 in a paraiso tree in the patio of a house at which I stopped the 

 night between the E.io Xegro and Porongos. A puestero at 

 Santa Elena said that a few years ago several were caught near 

 the Paso del Durazno on the Arroyo Grande ; and Mr. Davie 

 wrote me word that the Tatii had occurred at Gruaycuru, in the 

 same pago, in his recollection. The Tatu is apparently disappearing 

 gradually from the more populated camps. The Tatii is much 

 larger than the Mulita, and is rather narrow in proportion to its 

 length. 



Peludo Armadillo (Dasypus sexdnctus). 



The Peludo, or Hairy Armadillo, said to be less particular as to 

 its diet than its cougeners, and not to despise carrion beef and 

 mutton, was quite rare in the vicinity of Santa Elena, Soriano. 

 The specimen I brought thence was caught close to the Arroyo 

 Grande. It is always called Peludo in the camp, but it is not the 

 Hairy Armadillo found about Buenos Ayres {Basypus villosus, 

 Desra.). In the list of animals in the Zoological Society's Gardens 

 (1883) the habitat of the latter is given as " La Plata," and of the 



