194) TWELVE-BANDED ARMADILLO. 
viz. from nose to tail two feet ten inches , and the 
tail about one foot eight inches. This, Mr. Pen- 
nant says, is the largest he ever heard of: in the 
British Museum, however, is a specimen of ex- 
actly similar dimensions, and which is accurately 
represented on the annexed plate. The head is 
rather small than large; and the snout is sharp- 
ish : the ears small and sharp : the claws exces- 
sively large and strong. The bands, which are 
thirteen in number, are scarce distinguishable 
from the rest of the armour, which both before 
and behind is marked out into narrow zones, di- 
vided into numerous oblong squares : these bands 
on the fore part of the animal are narrower or 
more closely set than on the hind part, and the 
whole exactly agrees with Buffon's figure entitled 
Autre Kabassou (vol. 10. pi. 41.) The colour of 
the whole animal is a pale yellowish-grey. 
The figures given in plate 30. vol. 1. of Seba/ 
seem to be young ones, and consequently do not 
exhibit with sufficient distinctness some of the 
characters : their heads seem remarkably thick or 
blunt ; and the tail of one of them is represented 
as perfectly void of any covering; of the other 
covered with square scaly divisions : the ears in 
fcoth very large. 
