. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. TME AKMAUILLOS. CHAPTER III. THE AKMAUILLO FAMILY. Tiie Armour-iilates—How the Shields are formed—Their connection with the Body—Description of the Animals—Mode of Walking—Diet—Skeleton—Adaptation of their Limbs for Bun'owing—Classification—The Great Armadillo- Appearance—Great Burrower—The Tatouay—The Poyou, or Yellow-kooted Armadillo—The Peu'do fin Hairy Armadillo—The Pichiy—The Peba, or Black Tatou—The Mule Armadillo-The Ball Ahmadillo- Dr. Murie's Account of its Habits—Description -The Muscles by wliich it Kolls itself up and Unrolls i
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. TME AKMAUILLOS. CHAPTER III. THE AKMAUILLO FAMILY. Tiie Armour-iilates—How the Shields are formed—Their connection with the Body—Description of the Animals—Mode of Walking—Diet—Skeleton—Adaptation of their Limbs for Bun'owing—Classification—The Great Armadillo- Appearance—Great Burrower—The Tatouay—The Poyou, or Yellow-kooted Armadillo—The Peu'do fin Hairy Armadillo—The Pichiy—The Peba, or Black Tatou—The Mule Armadillo-The Ball Ahmadillo- Dr. Murie's Account of its Habits—Description -The Muscles by wliich it Kolls itself up and Unrolls itself—The I'lCHiCLVGO—Concluding Kemarks : Classification of the Order, Fossil Edentates, the Allied .Species of Munis in Soutli Africa and Hindostan. These South American animals are more or less covered witli a liard bony crust, separated into shields and bands, wiiich are more or less movable, owing to the presence of special skin-inusclcs. In the most perfectly armoured there are four distinct shields and a .set of bands, a certain amount of motion being possible between .their edges. Of the shields, cue covers the head, another the back of the neck, a thii-d protects the shoulders like a great cape, and the fovu-th arches o\er the rump like a half dome, and is, in some, attached by its deep structure to the bones of the hip and haunch. The movable bands cover the back and loins, and are between the third and fourth shields. The tail may further be invested by incomplete bony rings, and scattered scales, and others are distributed over the limbs. This covering is, according to Professor Huxley, strictly comparable to part of the armour of the Crocodile; and the Armadillos are the only Mammals possessing such structure. The shields and bands are formed of many scales, or scutes, which are ossifications of the skin, and they may be of many kinds of shape—four, or many-sided^ being united by sutures, and they are incapable of separate mo
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