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4. CABASSOUS LUGUBRIS (Gray). 
NAKED-TAILED ARMADILLO. 
Local name: Cachicamo. 
1873. Ziphila Juguhris Gray, Hand-List of the Edentate, Thick-skinned, and Rumi- 
nant Mammals in the British Museum, p. 23. 
1899. Tatoua (Ziphila) lugnbris Miller, Pror. Biol. Soc. Wash., XIII, p. 6. 
1900. Cabassous hispidus Bangs, Proc. New Eng. Z06I. Club, I, p. 89. 
One specimen, a 3'oung- male, was obtained by Captain Robinson at 
San Julian on July 11. Its measurements were: Length, 1:98; tail, 
192; hind foot, 73. 
It was kept alive until the following- da3\ When put down near 
water it waded in and drank f reel}- by rapidly protruding and retract- 
ing its slender tongue. This was 8 mm. wide at the widest point, 
and could be extended 60 mm. beyond the tip of the nose. There 
were fleshy h laments in the nostrils pointing to the front, and prob- 
ably serving the purpose of the hairs in the nostrils of other animals. 
Its gait was very awkward; it stepped on the tips of the large claws 
of its forefeet and turned in its hind feet with the waddle of a musk- 
rat Its testes were abdominal. Its penis was recurved and turned 
to the left, so that in urinating a fine stream was ejected backward 
between its hind legs and to the left of its tail. This is probably a 
result of its burrowing habits. Its excrements were rounded and 
very hard, consisting apparently of earth}^ and gritty matter taken in 
along with its food. It made no attempt to roll up when molested, 
but if grasped around the middle would press forcibly against one's 
fingers with its heavy foreclaws. 
5. TAYASSU TAJACU (Linnaeus). 
BRAZILIAN COLLARED PECCARY. 
Local name: Baqiiira. 
1889. Dicotyles tajassu Cope, Amer. Naturalist, XXIII, pp. 146-147. 
1897. Dicotyles tajacii Allen and Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., IX, p. 22. 
Represented b}- one living specimen purchased in the market at 
La Guaira and now in the National Zoological Park, Washington, 
D. C. It may be T. torvus Bangs,^ but this can not be determined 
without an examination of its skull. At San Julian Captain Robinson 
saw the hides of four that had been killed the previous year by the 
dogs of one of the natives. Some years ago small bands of six or 
eight came frequentl}' to the clearings, but now thej' are not so 
abundant. 
iProc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XII, 1898, p. 164. 
