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BULLETIN 5(5, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



lection of the U. S. National Museum (No. r)(St)8(t, skin and skull). 

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

 desert region hoi'dering the (iulf of California, of Avhicli I have 

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

 widdle, of (he Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution. From 

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

 as I had been previously told by Don C\vpriano Ortego, who resides 



Fig. 5.— Tayasssl' angulatim sonoriensk. (Cat. No. 3.3X1.'), U.S.N.M.) a, Skull, ventral view; 



b, LOWER .TAW, SEEN FKO.M ABOVE. 



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

 peccaries on the Mexican Boundary Line. The Santa Cruz specimen 

 is gray, without I'ed tints, nearly white below, and with the veitebral 

 line less black than usual." 



"Since the above was written a subs^pecies liiinirralix (properly Ititincrule) 

 has been described by Doctor Merriam. as follows : 



TAYASSU ANGULATUS HUMERALIS Mernam. 



Type from Arnieria. Colini. No. 4524o, j ad.. U. S. National Museum, Bio- 

 logical Survey Collection. February 2(>, 1S!>2. E. W. Nelson and E. A. 

 Goldman. Original \o. ir)4.">. 



CJidractcrf!. — Similar to (iiifnildtiis, but sides gi'ayer ; bead yellower; dorsal 

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

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



