ARMADILLO. 
who give notice to their mafter of its haunts by 
barking, who digs it out j to take it out incautioufly 
is very dangerous, on account of the fnakes that 
commonly lurk in the burrows: feeds on potatoes, 
melons and roots, and does great damage to plan¬ 
tations : drinks much : grows very fat, and is rec¬ 
koned very delicious eating when young *, but when 
old, has a muiky difagreeable tafte : is very- nume¬ 
rous, breeds every month, and brings four at a time: 
Is very inoffenfive *. 
2*3- Six- 
ban d e d 
Tatou Belon ohf 211. Portraits , Dafypus fexcin&us. D.cingulis 
106. fcnis, pedibus pentada&ylis Lin* 
Tatu et Tatu paba Brafil: Ar- fyfi. 54. 
xnadillo Hifpanis , Lufitanis , Encu- L’Encourbert, ou Le Tatou a fix 
berto Marcgrave Brafil, 131. _ bandes. de Buffon, X. 209. tab, 
Cataphrattus fcutis duobus, cin- xlii. 
gulis fex Brijfon quad. 25. 
A. with the cruft of the head, ftioulders and rump, 
formed of angular pieces : the bands on the back fix 5 
between which, alfo on the neck and belly, are a 
few fcattered hairs : tail not the length of the body, 
very thick at the bafe, tapering to a point: five toes 
on each foot. 
Inhabits Brafil and Guiana , 
* The authorities for the natural hiftory. Mangrove , 231. Dam- 
per y It. 61. Gumilla Orenoque, III. 223 to 226. Nieubojf, 19. Ban¬ 
croft’s Guiana , 145. Rochefort Antilles y I. 286. 
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