no MAMMALIA. BRUTA. Armadillo. 



ed with a granulated fkin; the cruft on the head is long, broad, and confifts of one piece, reaching 

 as far as the moveable band, or fmall fhield, on the neck ; the muzzle is fharp, and, with the head, 

 refembles a pig ; the eyes are fmall and funk ; the tongue is narrow and pointed ; the ears are fhort, 

 brown, and naked : There are eighteen teeth in each jaw ; the tail is thick at the rump, narrowing 

 to the point, where it is thin and rounded ; the body is of a reddifh yellow colour, and is commonly 

 very plump and fat. 



J 53 4. Seven- banded Armadillo.— 6. Dafypus feptemcinttus. 5. 



Has feven moveable bands; the fore feet have each four toes, and the hind feet five. 

 Amoen. ace. i. 281. Schreber, ii. 220. t. lxxii. lxxvi. f. 3. 4. 



Tatus, a foreign quadruped. Gefn. quad. 103. 



Inhabits South America.— Dr Gmelin adds, that it inhabits India, and that, in reality, there are 

 only fix bands. The fhield on the moulder is notched on its anterior margin. 



The Count de Buffon, vol. v. 369. in a note, quotes Marcgrave as faying, « In dorfo feptem funt 

 " divifurae, cute fufca intermedia." He applies this to the Encouberto, or fix-banded fpecies, and 

 makes the following obfervation, which feems intended as a reflexion againft the great Linnxus : 

 " The word divifurae, as well as commijfurae, and juniiurae, fignify the intervals between the bands, 

 " and not the bands themfelves ; feven intervals are necefTary to make fix bands." This criticifm 

 might poffibly be juft, though, even then, I mould fcruple to fubferibe to it, if the former part of the 

 fentence, feven divifwns on the back, were not followed by the latter, having a brown Jkin between each. 

 It is very evident that the brown Jkin could not be interpofed between the intervals of the bands, but 

 in the intervals, and between the divifurae; there muft therefore have been in the animal, as defcribed 

 by Marcgrave, and as underftood by Linnsus, feven folid bands or divifions of the fhell, produced 

 by means of eight intervals. — T. 



IJ4 5. Eight-banded Armadillo. — 7. Dafypus oflocinftus. 8. 



Has two fhields and eight bands. Schreber, ii. 222. lxxiii. lxxvi. f. 5. 6. 



Cataphraftus oclocinctus, having two fhields and eight bands. BrifT. quad. n. 27. — Aiatochtli. 



Hernaud. Mex. 314. — Tatouete. Sm. Buff. v. 371 Eight-banded armadillo. Penn. hift. of quad. 



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Inhabits Brafil. — Dr Gmelin is uncertain whether this and the D. Septemcinctus, may not be the 

 fame animal, and whether it differs from the eight-banded fpecies defcribed by Molina in his Natural 

 Hiftory of Chili, book iv. p. 271. which has five toes on each hind foot ? The head is fmall, and 

 covered with a helmet ; the muzzle is fharp ; the ears are about two inches long, and erect ; the eyes 

 are fmall and black ; there are four toes on the fore, and five on each hind foot. It is about ten- 

 inches long, from the t'p of the nofe to the rump, and the tail is nine inches long, being covered 

 with moveable rings, divided into nine joints by interpofed flexible fkin ; the cruft on the back is of 

 an iron-grey colour; the flanks and tail are whitifh grey, fpotted with iron-grey ; and the belly is 

 ■covered with a whitifh granulated fkin, interfperfed with a few hairs ; the legs are about three inches 

 long? the craft of the fhields is interfperfed with prominent white knobs, about the fize of fmall peas;. 



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