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The Six-banded Tatou or Armadillo. Encoubert and Cir- 

 quirisa Buff.* (Das. Sexcinctus et Octodecimcinctus, L.) 

 Buff. XXIII. et Supp. III. lvii. 



With six or seven bands ; the compartments 

 smooth, large, and angular ; with a moderate 

 tail, annulated only at its base ; five toes 

 throughout; the posterior buckler indented like 

 a saw ; the non-scaly parts furnished with hairs, 

 longer and thicker than in the other species. 



The Nine-banded Tatou or Armadillo. Tatou Peba, Margr. 

 Black Tatou, d'Azara. Cachicame, Buff. Das. Novem- 

 cinctus, Das. Octocinctus, et Das. Septemcinctus, L.) Buff. 

 X. xxxvu. 2//. LVII. 



With nine intermediate bands ; the tail long, 

 and annulated on nearly the whole of its length ; 

 the compartments of the buckler small and 

 round ; four toes only before ; the helmet ge- 

 nerally blackish. It is the most common in 

 Guiana or Brazil. It has / sometimes eight 

 bands, but seldom seven or six ; its body is 

 about fifteen inches long, and the tail is nearly 

 the same. 



The Twelve-banded Tatou or Armadillo. Cabasson, Buff'. 

 Tatouay, d'Azara. (Das. Unicinctus, L.) Buff. X.xl. 



With twelve intermediate bands ; the tail long 



* The Tatou Peba, or Encouberto of Margrave, is the Novem- 

 cinctus. The Weasel-headed Tatou of Grew, Cirquinson of Buff., 

 Das. Octpdecimcinctus, is the same ; but Grew has considered as 

 moveable the ranges of the helmet of the head. Even reckoning 

 them, there are in all but sixteen, and his figure shews no more. 



