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angular divisions; the crust on the shoulders into, 
oblong pieces inclining to a squarish form : that 
on the rump into hexagonal ones ; (the Count de 
BufFon describes them as square, though hexa- 
gonal in the figure) : the fore feet have five toes, 
with very large and strong claws ; the hind feet 
have the same number,, but smaller: the tail is 
somewhat shorter than the body; and is said by 
Buffon to have no crustaceous* covering; differ- 
ing, in that respect, from every other species : his 
figure represents it covered with roundish tuber- 
cles. The length of this animal, from the nose 
to the tail, is about a foot ; the tail about seven 
inches, or less. 
Far. ? 
GREATER TWELVE-BANDED ARMADILLO. ^ 
This, which is by far the largest of all the Ar- 
madillos, differs from the former in the pattern of 
the shield on the interior and hinder part of the 
body; all the divisions consisting of oblong 
squares: the tail also differs, being longer thaii 
the body. The measures of the specimen de- 
scribed and figured by Buffon, are thus given, 
* By this, however, we are by no means to understand that the 
tail is merely covered by skin j on the contrary, it is guarded by 
scaly tubercles, which secure it almost as strongly as the armour on 
that of other species j and, indeed, the chief difference is, that these 
strong tubercles are not, strictly speaking, set in jointed rings, 
but scattered. 
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