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"VII. An Account of an American Arma- 
dilla : By William Watfon, M. D. 
F. R. S. 
To the Royal Society. 
Gentlemen, 
Rea ^ eb -9> T Herewith lay before you, for your in- 
JL fpedion, the drawing, by the inge- 
nious Mr. Pailiou, of an animal very leldom, if ever, 
feen alive in England [Tab. VII.]. It is now alive 
in excellent health, and in the poliefiion of the right 
honourable the Lord Southwell. It is called by 
Linnaeus, in his Syftema Naturae, Dalypus cingulis 
novem, pailmis tetradattylis, plantis pentada&y- 
hs. 
Marcgrave and Ray have both deferibed it under 
the appellation of Tatue Bralilienlicus. Albert Seba 
has likewife deferibed it in the firft volume of his ele- 
gant and elaborate Mufeum. He calls it Tatou, 
live Armadillus Americanus. The figure attending 
his defeription is taken from a dead animal. The 
drawing therefore is hard and ftiff, and the colouring 
does by no means come up to the living animal. 
This creature, which is called by naturalills the 
American Armadilla, was brought hither a few 
months fince to Lord Southwell, from the country 
near what is ufualiy called the Mofquito fhore, upon 
the American continent. Its weight is feven pounds 
V o l. LI V. I avoirdupois. 
