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B.— Dicotyles tajacu topvus. 



Tayassu tor\ns, Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. WasJiinqton, vol. xii, p. 164, 

 1898. '■ 



Dicotyles tajacu iovxus, LydeJcker, Great and Small Game of Europe, 



etc. p. 382, 1901. 

 Tagassu torvus, Elliot, Cat. Mamm. Field Mas. {Field Mas. Zool. 



Pub. vol. viii) p. 35, 1907. 

 Tayassu torvum, Osgood, Field Mas. Zool. Pub. vol. x, p. 46, 1912. 



Typical locality Santa Marta district, Colombia. 

 Type in U.S. National Museum, Washington. 

 Skull relatively small, short, wide, and depressed. 



The reference of the follovd));! ^^pecimem io fin's r((ce /.s- 

 jyrovisional : — 



97. 11. 7. 5G. Skull and skin, young. Cachavi, Ecuador ; 

 collected by Mr. W. F. H. Eosenberg. PurcJmsed, 1897. 



99. 10. 3. 65. Skull and skin, young. Near Bogota, 

 Colombia ; collected by Mr. G. D. Child. 



Presented hy 0. Thomas, Esq., 1899. 

 14. 11. G. 2. Skull and skin. Eio Cesar Valley, 

 Colombia ; collected by W. K. Pomeroy, Esq. 



Presenied h>/ the Zoological Society, 1914. 



C— Dicotyles tajacu niger. 



Dicotyles torquatus, Tomes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 262 ; nee Cuvier. 

 Tayassu niger, Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. xxxii, p. 476, 

 1913. 



Typical locality Esnieraldas, Ecuador. 



Type in American Museum of Natural History, New 

 York. 



Differs from both the preceding races liy the general 

 colour being nearly uniform black instead of grizzled grey 

 or tawny. 



97. 11. 7. 56. Skin, young female, provisionally referred 

 to this race. Cachavi, Ecuador. 



Presented h/ 0. Thomas, Esq., 1897 



