MAMMALIA. BRUTA. Armadillo. in 



and the moveable bands are marked with triangular figures : The cruft is eafHy penetrated, even 

 with fmall {hot; and the flefli is very white, and reckoned extremely delicate eating. 



155 6. Nine-banded Armadillo. — 8. Dafypus novemcinclus. 6. 



Has nine belts ; the fore feet have four claws, and the hind feet five. Muf, Ad. Ft. 6. 

 Houtt. nat. ii. 284. t. 16. f. 3. Schreber, ii. 223. tab. lxxiv. lxxvi. f. 7. 10. 



Cataphractus novemcinctus, having two fhields and nine belts. Brill", quad. 42. — Tatus. Gefn. 

 quad. 935.— Tatu-ete. Marcgr. Braf. 235.— Tatu, or American Armadillo. Seba, Muf. i. 45. 

 t. 29. f. 1. -Armadillo, or Aiatochtli. Nieremb. hift. nat. 158. upper fig.— Pig-headed armadillo. 

 Grew, Muf. 18.— Cachichame. Sm. Buff, v. 373. pi. clii — Nine-banded armadillo. Penn. hift. of 

 quad. n. 364. 



Inhabits South America, being particularly common in Guiana The flefh is very good eating. 



Dr Gmelin expreffes his uncertainty whether the eleven-banded Armadillo of Molina, having four 

 toes on the fore-feet, and five behind, Hift. Nat. Chil. book iv. p. 271. be a diftinft fpecies, or if it 

 Ihould belong to this place as a variety ? The Count de Buffon thinks it probable that this nine- 

 banded Armadillo is the male of the former, or eight-banded fpecies. The head is five inches long, 

 tire body eighteen, and the tail a foot, or perhaps more; as in another fpecimen, confiderably fmaller, 

 the tail was eleven inches, while the body was only feven and a half; the head is long and narrow, 

 with a long fharp pointed muzzle, and Iongilh blunt ears ; the cruft on the fhoulders, rump, and 

 head, is marked with fix-fided figures ; and the divifions of the belts with tranfverfe, wedge-like 

 marks. 



I j g fi.— In the Leverian Mufeum is a fpecimen of the fame form, proportions, and number of bands ; 

 but the crufts on the head and other parts are covered with large fcales, which want the above de- 

 fcribed figures. Penn. hift. of quad. p. 501. 



157 7- Kabaflbu. — Dafypus duodecemcinflus. 



Has twelve moveable bands and five toes on all the feet. Sm. Buff. v. 375. pi. diii. 



Dafypus unicinftus. Syft. nat. ed. Gmelin. p. 54. G. 10. fp. 1 .-Cataphractus duodecemcinftus,. 

 with two fhields and twelve belts. Briff. quad. 43. Schreber, ii. 225. tab. lxxv. lxxvi. f. 1 1. 12.— 

 Tatu, or African Armadillo. Seba, Muf. i. 47. t, 30. f. 3. 4— Armadillo. Penn. hift. of quad. 

 n. 365. 



Inhabits South America— In the Syftema Naturae, mified by the miftake of the editor of 

 Seba's Mufeum, it is faid to come from Africa. The covering of the fore part of the back is 

 made up of feven feries of little fhields, and on the hind part of nine. The head is thicker 

 and broader, and the muzzle lei's {lender than in the other fpecies ; the legs and" feet are alfo 

 thicker ; the fhield on the {houlder is made up of four or five rows, compofed of large four- 

 fided pieces ; the moveable bands are alfo compofed of almoft fquare and large pieces ; thofe of 

 the rump {hield are fimilar to the {houlder fhield ; the helmit is made up of large irregular pieces: 

 Between the joints, and in other parts of the armour, are fome briftly hairs 3 on the breaft, belly, 



legs. 



