5 6° The Hi ft ory of A N I M A L S, 
This is a native of many parts of South America ; it feeds on vegetables, and will 
make it’s way into the ground to get at their roots, in the manner of a hog, by bur¬ 
rowing with it’s nofe. It eats alio fruits, and is particularly fond of melons 5 it will 
ado feed on infedts. It uiually is found on hilly grounds, but fometimes about waters 5 
it’s fleOi is efculent, ^and of an agreeable favour. The writers on the American ani¬ 
mals have all deferibed it. Marcgrave and others have called it Tatu vulvaris and 
Armadilla vulgaris. 0 J 
Dafypus cingulis feptem. 
The Dafypus, with feven belts . 
This is of the bignefs of a large cat : the head is oblong and fmall ; it is broad at 
the forehead, and narrower all the way to the fnout, which is very fmall, but obtufe: 
the ears are confiderably long, and are carried ered j the eyes are fmall, black, and 
depreffed ; the noftrils are wide : the body is thick and oblong; the back is elevated, 
and the belly is lomewhat prominent; the tail is fhort, but it is proportionably longer 
than in either of the former fpecies: the legs are alfo fhort, though lefs fo than in the 
oihers 5 and they have this Angularity, that the fore-feet have only four toes, and the 
hinder ones have f ve; of thefe the three middle ones are large and long, the two late¬ 
ral ones floort : the top of the head, and the whole body are covered with a fcaly ar¬ 
mature, of the hardnefs of bone ; and this is fo large, that the creature can with eafe 
draw back it’s legs and head, fo as to remain wholly covered with it: the belts, or 
tranfverfe pieces of which this covering of the back is compofed, are (even ; they are 
feparated by naked places, covered with a tough and firm brown fkin : the fcaly mat¬ 
ter is of a deep brown colour, and very firm ftru&ure ; the tail is covered with the 
fame kind of armature, and has as many joints as there are in the body. 
The throat, the bread, and the belly, as alfo the infide of the legs, and the under 
part of the tail are all covered with a tough, but not hard, fkin } this is of a brown 
colour, and has a few fhort and white hairs fcattered over it. 
This, as well as the preceding fpecies, is frequent in South America; they feed, in 
the fame manner as the others, indiferiminately on animals of the fmaller kind, and 
on vegetables, and their flefh is efteemed at table. Marcgrave and the other Brafrlian 
writers have deferibed this under the Brafilian name of Tatuete. 
Dafypus cingulis tribus. Xljf OitCHtftl 
‘The Dafypus, with three belts. 
This is equal to the laft deferibed fpecies in fize: the head is fmall, in proportion to 
the body, and is of an oblong and fomewhat conic figure; it is large, and rounded at 
the crown, and thence gradually becomes fmaller to the fnout, where it is very flender, 
but obtufe ^ the eyes are fmall and black; they do not hand prominent, but appear 
rather funk in the head : the ears are about three quarters of an inch long, ereefr, pa¬ 
tulous, and brown ; the noftrils are wide ; the mouth is not very large, and there are 
fome whifkers of a grey colour about it. 
The neck is fhort and thick; the body is oblong, rounded, and thick; the tail is 
very fhort; the legs alfo are very fhort, but the feet are large ; they are formed in the 
manner of hands, and the toes are very long. 
The whole back, the neck, the head, and the tail, and alfo the upper and outer 
part of the legs, are covered with large feales, forming a kind cf bony armature for 
every part, where the creature could be liable to hurt: thofe on the back are placed 
tranfverfely, and are fo broad, that three of them reach the whole length ; thefe are 
connected by a bluifh-tough fkin, on which there grow a few white hairs: the head, 
tail, and legs are covered with fmaller and more numerous feales of the fame kind ; 
the breaft and belly are covered with a very firm and tough fkin, like that between 
the fcaly belts of the back; it is of a livid colour, granulated in fome degree, and 
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