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Quauh pecotl seu Meles Montanus, Hernandez, De Quad. Nov. Hisp. fol. 6, cap. xvii. 
Pisoti, Tejon, of Spanish Americans (the latter name being common to Procyon). 
Hab. Nortu America, Texas?.—Mexico (Liebmann, Hegewitsch, Mus. Hafn.), Mazatlan, 
Colima, Tehuantepec, Jalapa (U.S. Nat. Mus.; Mus. Comp. Zool.*), Vera Cruz 
(Weinland®, de Saussure®), Guadalajara (Dugés*), Yucatan (Gaumer, Mus. Boucard); 
British Honpuras, Belize (Mus. Comp. Zool.”); GuatTEMaLa, Duefas’, Volcan 
de Fuego (Godman & Salvin, Mus. Brit.); Nicaragua (Belt); Costa. Rica 
(Frantzius*), Tucurrique (Arcé, Mus. Brit.), Pacuare, Talamanca, Las Cruces de 
Candelaria (U.S. Nat. Mus.”); Panama (Boucard, Mus. Brit.). 
The White-nosed Coati seems to be widely distributed throughout Central America, 
passing in the north into Texas, whence a specimen was sent from Fort Brown to the 
National Museum at Washington”. Southwards its range may not improbably 
extend into Colombia; but neither Mr. Allen nor I have ever seen a single specimen 
of true VV. nasica from any locality further south than Panama. Owing to Tschudi’s 
description of his N. leucorhynchus having appeared in his great ‘Fauna of Peru,’ it 
has been assumed by some that the animal is a native of that country; but his types 
were Museum specimens, stated to be from “the interior of Brazil” *; and there seems 
to be little doubt that that somewhat vague habitat was erroneous. 
As in Brazil, the natives of Central America distinguish two species of Coati—the 
sociable (Tejon de mannada) and the solitary (Tejon solo). This distinction was recog- 
nized by Prince Maximilian and by several later zoologists; and we are indebted to 
Dr. Hensel® for the confirmation of Azara’s opinion that the Pisoti solo is simply an 
old male which has left the herd and adopted a hermit-life. 
In Costa Rica Dr. v. Frantzius found this species in the mountain-forests lying at 
an elevation of from 6000 to 7000 feet above the sea, and obtained specimens from 
the summit of the Irazu and the Poas volcanoes, from Turialba and the Candelaria 
Mountains*. Mr. Belt states that in Nicaragua he observed the Coati pursuing the 
large Iguanas, but that the lizards usually manage to drop from the branch and 
escape to another tree, except when they are surprised asleep. He says*:—‘ I once 
saw a solitary Pisoti hunting for Iguanas among some bushes near the lake, where 
they were very numerous; but during the quarter of an hour that I watched him he 
never caught one. It was like the game of ‘ puss in the corner.’ He would ascend a 
small tree on which there were several; but down they would drop when he had 
nearly reached them, and rush off to another tree. Master Pisoti, however, seemed to 
take all his disappointments with the greatest coolness, and continued the pursuit 
unflaggingly. Doubtless experience had taught him that his perseverance would 
ultimately be rewarded, that sooner or later he would surprise a corpulent Iguana 
fast asleep on some branch or too late in dropping from his resting-place. In the 
forest I always saw the Pisoti hunting in large bands, from which an Iguana would 
* ¢Naturalist in Nicaragua,’ p. 339. 
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