66 TAGASSU. 



Size large; mane long, bristly; skull large, heavy; nasals flat on 

 top; sides of rostrum flattened, swollen over premolars and not 

 divided by zygomatic ridge; palate broad, flat and without ridge 

 between first molar and inner side of canine; zygomatic ridge dis- 

 appearing over second premolar. Second lower molar with posterior 

 cusp as long and high as the anterior. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES. 



A. Rostrum and nasals broadly flattened. PAGE 



a. Breast and under parts white T. pecari 66 



b. Breast and under parts grizzled black and 



fulvous T. p. ringens 66 



49. pecari (Tayassii), Fischer, Zoogn., in, 1814, p. 285. 



albirostris (Sus), Illiger, Abandl, K, Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 

 1815, p. 115. 



labiatus Cuv., Regn. Anim., i, 1817, p. 238. 

 WHITE-LIPPED PECCARY. Warree, Caribbanco, in Costa Rica. 



Type locality. Paraguay. 



Geogr. Distr. Guatemala, Central America to Paraguay in South 

 America. 



Genl. Char. Size large; lips and breast white; cranial characters 

 conspicuous. 



Color. Top of head and upper part of face, from above angle of 

 mouth to a line with the ear, dark rufous brown, palest on cheeks; 

 rest of upper parts, sides and limbs to heels, dark reddish brown 

 and black; snout flesh color; upper lips and top of nose, chin, lower 

 parts of cheeks, throat, breast and under parts white; limbs below 

 heels light brown, with a blackish brown patch in front; hoofs black; 

 ears paler than head. 



Measurements. About the same as the following subspecies. 

 Skull: occipito-nasal length, 250; Hensel, 213; zygomatic breadth, 103 ; 

 interorbital constriction, 60; length of nasals, 84; palatal length, 163; 

 breadth of basi-occipital between bullae, posteriorly, 20; length of 

 upper tooth row, 72; length of mandible, exclusive of incisors, 184; 

 height of condyle, 79; at coronoid process, 88; length of lower molar 

 series, 79. 



a. ringens (Tayassu), Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xiv, 1901, 



p. 121. 



SAVAGE PECCARY. 



Type locality. Apazote, near Yohaltun, State of Campeche, 

 Mexico. 



