ARMADILLO. 
"Without either cutting teeth or canine teeth. ^XXXVIL 
Head and upper part of the body guarded by a DILL O. 
cruitaceous covering •, the middle with pliant bands, 
'formed of various Segments, reaching from the back 
to the edges of the belly. 
Tstu apara MarcgraveBrcfil, 232. Dafypus tricin<ftus. D. cingulis 252. Three- 
Raiijyn. quad. 234. tribus-, pedibus pentadadlylis. banded. 
Armadillo feu Tatu genus alte- Lin. fyfi. 53. 
rum. Clu,. Exot. 109. Klein, quad. CataphradUis fcutls duobus cin- 
48. gulis tribus. BriJJ'on quad. 24. 
Tatu-feu armadillo orientals. L’Apar ou le Tatou a trois ban- * 
Seb. Muf. 1 . tab . xxxviii. fig. 2, des, de Buff an ^ X. 206, 
b 
A. with Chart but broad rounded ears : the cruft on. 
the head, back and rump, divided into elegant pen¬ 
tangular tuberculaled/fegrnents : three bands in the 
middle : five toes on each foot: fhort tail. 
The whole genus inhabits S. America : the man¬ 
ners of all much the fame: burrows under ground ; 
the frnalter ipecies in moift places, the larger in dry, 
and at a diftance from the fea % keeps in its hole in 
the day, rambles out at night; when overtaken, 
rolls itfelf into the form of a ball, which it does by 
means of the pliant bands on its middle, and thus 
becomes invulnerable; when furprized, runs to its; 
hole, and thinks itfelf fecure if it can hide its. head 
and feme part of its. body. The Indians take it by 
the tail, when the animal fixes its claws in the earth 
fo ftrongly that there is no moving it till the Indian 
tickles it with a flick: is hunted with little dogs, 
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