258 CLASS MAMMALIA, 



and tuberculous ; the compartments of the 

 bands and the bucklers square, wider than 

 long ; five toes on all the feet, four of which on 

 the fore-feet have enormous nails, trenchant on 

 their external edge. It becomes very large. 



The Giant Tatou, or Armadillo, Geoff. Great Tatou 9 

 (TAzara. Dasypus Gigas, Cuv. Deuxieme Cabasson, 

 Buff. X. xiv. 



With twelve or thirteen intermediate bands; 

 the tail long, and covered with tily scales ; the 

 compartments square, wider than long. It is 

 the largest of the Armadillos ; sometimes more 

 than three feet long, without the tail. 



The Orycteropes (Orycteropus, Geoff.*} 



Have long been confounded with the Ant-eaters; 

 because they subsist on the same kind of food, 

 have the head similarly formed, and the tongue 

 long and extensible; but they are distinguished 

 from the Ant-eater by having cheek-teeth, and flat 

 nails, constructed for digging, and not trenchant; 

 the structure of their teeth is different from that of 

 all other quadrupeds; they are solid cylinders, 

 traversed like the pores of a cane, according to 

 their length, with an infinite number of little canals; 

 their stomach is simple, muscular toward the py- 

 loris, and the caecum is small and obtuse. 

 There is but one species known. 



* Orycteropus. The feet fitted for digging. 



