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and delicately built hairy pig in external appearance, peccaries are broadly 

 distinguished by the rudimentary condition of the tail, which is reduced to 

 a mere tubercle, as they also are by the presence ot a gland on the middle 

 of the back. Another important feature is that the upper tusks, or canine 

 teeth, are directed downwards in the ordinary manner, instead of being 

 curved upwards as in the swine of the Old World. The lower tusks bite 

 into notches in the upper jaw. In the hind-feet there are but three toes, 

 in place of the four of the true swine. There are also certain internal 

 anatomical differences between swine and peccaries — notably the complex 

 structure of the stomach in the latter. The ears of the peccaries are small 

 in comparison with the size of the head ; and the skin is covered with 

 coarse bristly hairs, which are elongated to form a crest, or mane, along 

 the back of the head and neck, and likewise a fringe on the throat and 

 hind-quarters. In their naked mobile snouts peccaries show their essen- 

 tially swine-like nature. They arc, however, unlike the Old World swine 

 in that they never give birth to more than a pair ot young at a time ; 

 these being uniformly coloured, and not striped and spotted with yellowish 

 like those of the great majority of wild swine. 



The collared peccary measures about 3 feet in total length, and is of a 

 dark grey colour, with a white or greyish white gorget passing across the 

 chest and extending upwards on each side to the shoulders. 



Inclusive of the various geographical races into which it has been 

 divided, the range of this peccary extends from the Red River of Arkansas, 

 in latitude 34" N., southwards through Mexico and Central and South 

 America to the Rio Negro in Patagonia. The typical form ot the species 

 is from the south of Brazil. 



In common with its fellow species, this peccary affords to the 

 sportsman practically nothing in the way of trophies, and very little 

 in the way of sport. Like all its kindred, it is a forest-dwelling animal, 

 but it differs from the white-lipped species in going about singly or 



