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Identifier: ForeststreamXXIX (find matches)
Title: Forest and stream
Year: 1873 (1870s)
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Subjects: Periodicals Hunting Fishing Outdoor life Sports
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : (Forest and Stream Publishing Co.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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me worms or roots, for all such thingspertain to its natural diet. If you can manage to followthe animal unobserved, it may still pursue its foraginguntil perchance it may come across some ant-hill or other,whereupon it immediately proceeds to open up the nestwith its fore-paws and devour the alarmed insects as theyswarm out of their abode. As it feasts upon these it isheard, ever and anon, to give utterance to a faint squeakof satisfaction, a habit to which it is also prone whileengaged in digging its burrow or feeding upon carrion,another thing of which an Armadillo is very fond. Ithas been said also that these animals have been known toburrow into human graves for the purpose of gratifyingtheir appetite in this last-named and more depraved direc-tion. Notwithstanding this fact those people who live inthe countries where Armadilloes are found, are very fondof the animal roasted whole in its shell, esteeming thedish a great delicacy.Let us now suppose that you have alarmed the animal
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A PAIR OF TEXAN ARMADILLOES (TatvMa novem-cinctus). From A Drawing by THE Attthor. To the unthinking, the first sight of one of theseanimals would convey the idea to the mind that it wasa sort of mammalian tortoise, so puzzling is its externalstructure and appearance. Aside from certain strictlyanatomical points, Professor Flower has characterizedthe present genus as having a narrow head, with a long,narrow, subcylindrical, obliquely-truncated snout. Earsrather large, ovate, and erect, placed close together onthe occiput. Carapace with seven to nine distinct mov-able bands. Body generally elongated and narrow. Tailmoderate or long, gradually tapering; its dermal platesforming very distinct rings for the greater part of itslength. Forefeet with four visible toes, and a concealedclawless rudiment of the fifth. Claws all long, slightly-curved, and very slender, the third and fourth subequaland alike, the first and fourth much shorter. Hindfeetwith five toes, all armed with strong, slight

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