Brazilian three-banded armadillo, rolled up, Tolypeutes tricinctus, and seven-banded armadillo or Brazilian lesser long-nosed armadillo, Dasypus septemcinctus. Three-banded armadillo, the same rolled up, and seven-banded armadillo. After an illustration by Jacques de Seve. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from William Smellie's English translation of George Buffon's Natural History, General and Particular, and Henry Chambers' History of Birds, Fishes, Reptiles and Insects, Thomas Kelly, London, 1828. Artist unknown. William Smellie (1740-1795) was a prolific Scottish author, naturalist and t

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Brazilian three-banded armadillo, rolled up, Tolypeutes tricinctus, and seven-banded armadillo or Brazilian lesser long-nosed armadillo, Dasypus septemcinctus. Three-banded armadillo, the same rolled up, and seven-banded armadillo. After an illustration by Jacques de Seve. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from William Smellie's English translation of George Buffon's Natural History, General and Particular, and Henry Chambers' History of Birds, Fishes, Reptiles and Insects, Thomas Kelly, London, 1828. Artist unknown. William Smellie (1740-1795) was a prolific Scottish author, naturalist and translator. His two-volume translation of Buffon first appeared in 1781.

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