:oS MAMMALIA. . BRUTA. Armadillo. 



Inhabits India. — This fpecies is much lefs than the former : The fore feet, and even a part of the 

 . fore legs, are deftitute of fcales and covered with hair; the fcales are much ftriated, or chanelled, 

 and are each armed with three fharp points; the lower parts of the body are covered with hair, and 

 there are no briftles among the fcales : One, formerly in the Britifh Mufeum, was a yard and a half 

 long, of which the tail was a yard and half a quarter, the body, including the head, being only four- 

 teen inches. Thefe animals roll themfelves up like a clue, the tail forming a belt round the body, 

 with all its fcales erected : In this ftate they brave the fury of their enemies, even of the tigers, which 

 endeavour in vain to devour them. 



VIII, ARM AD I LLC— S. DA ST PUS. 10. 

 Has no tufks : The grinders are fhort and cylindrical, and of 

 thefe there are feven on each iide in the upper jaw, and 

 eight on each fide of the lower; the body is covered with 

 a teflaceous bony coat of mail) which is interfered by 

 circular bands of the fame kind. 



The animals of this genus * live on roots, melons, potatoes, flefh, fifli, infects, and worms ; they 

 burrow in the ground, remain in their holes all day, and only go out during the night ; are of mild 

 and gentle difpofitions, and defend themfelves from their enemies by rolling themfelves into a globular 

 form, prefenting their fhell or armour on all fides. They chiefly inhabit South America. The fe- 

 males bring forth every month. — As very considerable confnfion feems to have crept into the ar- 

 rangement of the fpecies of this genus, I have preferred the arrangement of the Count de Buffon, 

 to that of Linnieus, in the following enumeration of fpecies ; but the characters and fynonimes of 

 Gmelin's edition of the Syftema Naturae are preferved. — T* 



All the fpecies of this genus are covered on the head, neck, back, flanks, riimp, and tail, even to 

 its extremity, with a cruft refembling bone, which is itfelf covered with a thin, fmooth, tranfparent, 

 lkin : The only parts which want this cruft are the throat, breaft, and belly, which have a granu- 

 lated fkin, like a plucked fowl, on which, by accurate inflection, the rudiments of fcales, fimilar to 

 the cruft, are difcoverabie : The cruft is divided into feveral bands or girdles, connected together 

 by membranes, which allow a certain degree of movement to this armour. All the fpecies have two 

 bony fhields, one covering the fhoulders, and another on the rump, except the Cirquincon, or eigh- 

 teen banded fpecies, which has only that on the fhoulders. They are hunted with little dogs, which 

 give notice, by the fcent, of their haunts, whence they are dug out ; being very good to eat. 



ko !• Apara. — 3. Dafypus iricincliis. 2. 



Has three moveable bands or girdles, and five toes on all the feet. Houtt. nat. ii. 280. 

 t. 16. f. 2. Schreber, ii. 2151 tab. lxxi. A. and lxxvi. 1. 2. 



Cataphractus tricinctus, having two fhields and three belts. Briff. quad. 24. — Tatou, or Arma- 

 dillo. Red. exper. 91. t. 92. Seba, Muf. i. 62. t. 38. f. 2. 3. — Tatu-apara. Marcgr. Braf. 232. Sm. 

 Buff. v. 366. — Armadillo, or another kind of Tatou. Cluf. exot. 109. Grew, Muf. 17 — Three- 

 banded armadillo. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 361. 



Inhabits 

 * The Iron-pigs, and Sheild-hogs, of fome writers. — T. 



