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The Nahtralist in La Plata, 
their fables of the “Uncle Remus” type, repre- 
senting it as a versatile creature, exceedingly fertile 
in expedients, and duping its sworn friend the fox 
in various ways, just as “ Brer Rabbit ” serves the 
fox in the North American fables. 
The hairy armadillo will, doubtless, long survive 
all the other armadillos, and on this account alone 
it will have an ever-increasing interest for the 
naturalist. I have elsewhere described how it 
Armadillo killing Snake. 
captures mice ; when preying on snakes it proceeds 
in another manner. A friend of mine, a careful 
observer, who was engaged in cattle-breeding 
amongst the stony sierras near Cape Corrientes, de- 
scribed to me an encounter he witnessed between 
an" armadillo and a poisonous snake. While seated 
on the hillside one day he observed a snake, about 
twenty inches in length, lying coiled up on a stone 
five or six yards beneath him. Bj^-and-by, a hairy 
