MAMMALS oh' THE MEXICAN BOUNDARY. 



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median area, which fades to grayish <>n the axillary and inguinal 

 regions. Snout livid plumbeous, sometimes flesh color around the 

 nostrils. Hoot's plumbeous black. 



Another adult male (No. 20656, Q.S.N.M., mounted), killed at the 



same time and place, is almost exactly like the type in coloration. 

 An old female (No. Hfff, U.S.N.M.) which was shot by the writer at 



tic 4.— Tayassu am. i i. \n .m sonoriense. (Cat. No. 35815, jJ.S.N.M.) a, Skull, lateral view: 



b, DORSAL VIEW. 



Cajon Bonito Creek. Mexico, near the boundary between Chihuahua 

 and Sonora, and about 6 miles south of the United State- border, 

 Aiiii'nst 11. 1892, is a little paler and more reddish, as is also a skin 

 obtained in Guadalupe Canyon. Arizona. 



At the Mexican town of Santa Cruz, on the river bearing the same 

 name, a young female was purchased from a Mexican hoy in October, 

 1893, and sent alive to the National Zoological Park in Washington 

 City, where it died during the following winter and i> now in the col- 



