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EIGHTEEN-BANDED ARMADILLO. 
Dasypus i8-cinctus. Z), cingulis octodecimo 
Armadillo with eighteen zones. 
Dasypus cingulo sirtiplici. Lin. Sysi, Nat, GmeL /. 55. 
Weezle-headed Armadillo. Gre'w. mus. reg. soc.p. 19. /. i. 
Cirquincon, ou Tatou a dix-huit bandeB. Buff, lo.p, 220. 
Eighteen-banded Armadillo. Pennant ^adr. 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 
