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EIGHTEEN-BANDED ARMADILLO. 



Dasypus 18-cinctus. D. cingulis octodecim* 



Armadillo with eighteen zones. 



Dasypus cingulo simplici. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 55. 



Weezle-headed Armadillo. Grew. mus. reg. soc.p. 19. /. 1. 



Cirquincon, ou Tatou a dix-huit bandes. Buff. \o.p. 220. 



Eighteen-banded Armadillo. Pennant Quadr. 2. p. 250. 



This was first described by Grew,, in the last 

 century, under the name of the Weezle-headed 

 Armadillo. The description was composed from 

 a specimen in the Museum of the Royal Society, 

 and is as follows : 



" His head in figure almost like a Weezle's, 

 whence I take leave for his name. It is three 

 inches and a half long; his forehead two inches 

 and a half broad, and very flat; the end of his 

 nose half an inch. His eyes small, a quarter of 

 an inch long. His ears two inches distant one 

 from another; an inch long. His body or trunk 

 eleven inches long, about six broad. His tail 

 five inches and a half long; near the buttocks an 

 inch and a quarter over ; the extremity the fifth 

 of an inch. His fore leg two inches and a half 

 long, three quarters broad; on which there are 

 five toes; whereof the three foremost are an inch 

 long, the other two half an inch : all with claws 

 the third of an inch. On his hinder foot (which 

 is somewhat bigger) he hath also five toes, as 

 in the foremost. His head, back, sides, legs, 

 and tail, are covered with a shelly armour. His 



