THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO. 
of an Armadillo, contracted in the form of a 
ball, which appear to have had Foor moveable 
Bands: but, as this author was totally ignorant 
of the animal whose skin or shell he describes 
• — as he knew not the very name of the Arma- 
dillo, though mentioned by Belon more than 
fifty years before, but gave it the compound 
appellation of Cheloniscus — besides, as he ac- 
knowledges, that the crust he describes had 
been pasted together, and that: some pieces 
were wanting — we have no proper authority 
to pronounce, as our modern nornenclators 
have done, that an Armadillo with Four move- 
able Bands, has an existence in nature ; espe- 
cially, as no notices have been "communicated, 
by any other naturalist,, concerning this animal, 
since the imperfect and suspicious account 
given by Fabius Columna in the year 1606. 
If it did exist, " concludes Button, " it 
would certainly have found it's way into some 
of our cabinets, : or been observed by travellers, 
Buftonhas, perhaps, been too hasty in con- 
demning " the modern nornenclators," — by 
which he chiefly means Linnaeus — on this ac- 
casion 1 for, as Molina,, in his Natural History 
