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peculiar gland, which secretes an oleaginous substance with a power- 

 ful musky odour. This was mistaken by the old travellers for a 

 second navel, a popular error which suggested to Cuvier the name 

 of Dicotyles. "When the animal is killed for food, it is necessary 

 speedily to remove this gland, otherwise it will taint the whole 

 flesh so as to render it uneatable. 



There are two species, 1 so nearly allied that they will breed 

 together freely in captivity. Unlike the true Pigs, they never 

 appear to produce more than two young ones at a birth. The 

 Collared Peccary (D. tajacu, Linn., torquatus, Cuvier), Fig. 109, ranges 

 from the Red River of Arkansas through the forest districts of 



Fig. 109. — The Collared Peccary (Dicotyles tajacu). 



Central and South America as far as the Rio Negro of Patagonia. 

 Generally it is found singly or in pairs, or at most in small herds of 

 from eight to ten, and is a comparatively harmless creature, not being 

 inclined to attack other animals or human beings. Its colour is dark 

 gray, with a white or whitish band passing across the chest from 

 shoulder to shoulder. The length of the head and body is about 

 36 inches. The White-lipped Peccary or Warree (D. labiatus, Cuvier) 

 is rather larger, being about 40 inches in length, of a blackish 

 colour, with the lips and lower jaw white. Its range is less ex- 

 tensive, since it is not found farther north than British Honduras 

 or south of Paraguay. It is generally met with in large herds of 

 from fifty to a hundred or more individuals, and is of a more 

 pugnacious disposition than the former species, and capable of 



1 Professor Cope considers that there is a third species, for which he has pro- 

 posed the name D. angularis. 



