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Show 1894.] MAMMALS OF URUGUAY. 307 to bring home an example captured when full-grown ; I can imagine the captain ordering the cage to be heaved overboard ! Ou the other hand, the same friend told me that he once caught some young ones, and that they became so tame that they were allowed to run about where they liked. Vesperugo montanus (Phil.): Dobson, Cat. Bats, p. 189. This was the only Bat of which I brought home specimens. It was common about the house, flying rather low among the o tubus gums, wattles, and other trees in the patio, but not easy to knock down. On the 3rd February, when riding across the camp and passing a small group of boulder rocks, I saw a Bat on the wing about 9 A.M. Of this day my Journal says:-" Blazing hot day, over 80° at 8 A.M., going up to 94° in the day, and standing at 86° at 9 P.M." Another species is found in Uruguay with the fur of a very dark rich mahogany colour; but I omitted to keep the very poor specimen I came across and never got another. MULITA (Tatusia septemcincta). This Armadillo is, I hear on good authority, still numerous in parts of the Department of Florida, but in Soriano where I was it was uncommon. The only live specimen I obtained escaped in my temporary absence; it was exceedingly quiet aud gentle in its manners. The " Mulita " occasionally figures on the menu at the hotels in Montevideo. TATU (Tatusia novemcincta). The Tatu is said to be found outside the monte along the Rio Negro. I saw the skull of a freshly-killed specimen hanging up in a paraiso tree in the patio of a house at which I stopped the night between the Rio Negro and Porongos. A puestero at Santa Elena said that a few years ago several were caught near the Paso del Durazno on the Arroyo Grande; and Mr. Davie wrote me word that the Tatu had occurred at Guaycuru, in the same pago, in his recollection. The Tatu is apparently disappearing gradually from the more populated camps. The Tatu is much larger than the Mulita, and is rather narrow in proportion to its length. PELUDO ARMADILLO (Dasypus sexcinctus). The Peludo, or Hairy Armadillo, said to be less particular as to its diet than its congeners, and not to despise carrion beef and mutton, was quite rare in the vicinity of Santa Elena, Soriano. The specimen I brought thence was caught close to the Arroyo Grande. It is always called Peludo in the camp, but it is not the Hairy Armadillo found about Buenos Ayres (Dasypus villosus, Desm.). In the list of animals in the Zoological Society's Gardens (1883) the habitat of the latter is given as " La Plata," and of the |
