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BULLETIN 56, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



lection of the l\ S. National Museum (No. 58986, skin and skull). 

 This specimen resembles the palest form of the peccary, from the 

 desert region bordering the Gulf of California, of which I have 

 examined a skin obtained from the Seri Indians by Mr. William Din- 

 widdle, of the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution. From 

 him I learned that this species ranges to the Gulf of California, 

 as I had been previously told by Hon Cypriano Ortego, who resides 



Fiu. 5.— Tayassu angulatum sonokiense. (Cat. No. 35815, U.S.N.M.) a, Skull, ventral view; 



J), LOWER JAW, SEEN PROM ABOVE. 



at Santo Domingo, Sonora, the most western point at which we found 

 peccaries on the Mexican Boundary Line. The Santa Cruz specimen 

 is gray, without red tints, nearly white below, and with the vertebral 

 line less black than usual." 



"Since the above was written a subspecies hunieralis (properly numerate) 



has been described by Doctor Merriam, as follows: 



TAYASSU ANGULATUS HUNIERALIS Merriam. 



Type from Armeria, Colim. No. 45243, 6 ad.. I'. S. National Museum, Bio- 

 logical Survey Collection. February 26, 1892. E. W. Nelson and B. A. 

 Goldman. Original No. 1945. 



Characters. Similar to angulatus, bul sides grayer; bead yellower: dorsal 

 black band more strongly marked, almost as sharply as in sonoriensis from 

 Arizona, shoulder stripes yellowish ochraceous, broad and conspicuous, as 



