292 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



The eye is very small, placed in the middle of a naked 

 space, and protected by thick eye-lids, bordered with a few 

 small lashes. The internal lid is very thick, but not exten- 

 sive, and the eye-pupil is round. 



The external ear is short, terminated in a point, and of a 

 very simple structure. 



The tongue is long, narrow, pointed, soft, and covered 

 with soft papillae, some round, others flat, and two conical. 



The Hairy Armadillo, is so named by D'Azara, not as 

 being singular in its genus in this respect, but merely as 

 being more hairy than the rest. It may answer the purpose 

 of that brevity which we are obliged to study, without, we 

 hope, destroying the utility of the work, to refer for the spe- 

 cific descriptions of the remaining species to the short 

 statements in the Table ; a note of the points in which the 

 species differ from each other may, after the details already 

 given, suffice in the stead of a particular description of 

 each. 



The Encoubert and the Pichiy of D'Azara have hairs, 

 but not so long or flexible as those which are found on the 

 sides, and proceed half way down the tail of this species ; 

 these hairs are brown, about an inch and a half in length ; 

 there are some also on the upper parts of the body, but 

 they are less numerous than those on the sides, and they are 

 shorter, arising apparently from the friction of them; there 

 are some, also, on the forehead, which are short, and the 

 largest of all appear on the outside of the fore-legs. All 

 the armour is dark brown, except that of the feet, which is 

 of a reddish^brown, with a mixture of pale orange colour. 



These Armadillos are not found in Paraguay, or north of 

 the River Plate, and only in the open country. D'Azara, 

 in one excursion between thirty-five and thirty-six degrees 

 of south latitude, found them by thousands, and there was 

 scarcely a man of the party of a hundred which was with 



