SIX-BANDED ARMADILLO., 
across, as well as along the back, so that the 
animal is enabled to move in all diredlions^ 
One species of the Armadillo has three of 
these bands; another six; a third eight; a 
fourth nine; a fifth twelve; and a sixth, eigh- 
teen. The shells are all covered with a thin, 
sleek, and transparent skin, variously coloured 
in the different kinds, but usually of a dirty 
igrey, or rather a sand-colour. 
Though these shells may well defend the 
Armadillo from a feeble enemy, they afford 
but a slight prote6lion against any powerful 
opponent. Nature has, therefore, with her 
usual bounty, given this animal the same 
means of security as that with which it has 
endued the pangolin and the hedgehog : for, 
the instant it finds itself attacked, it draws in 
it's head, leaving no part visible but the tip of 
the nose ; and, in proportion, as the apprehen- 
sion of danger Is increased, augmenting it's ex- 
ertions to become more secure, it tucks up it's 
feet under it's belly, and unites it's two extre- 
mities together, where the tail appears like a 
band to strengthen the rolled part into a sort 
of ball, flatted on each side. In this condi- 
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