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i-chUHsIi or y('ll()\\isli hrowii (i)rairie-dot!: color) without any iutcr- 

 iiiiiii>ling of l)lack, l)ut l)i'coiiiiiig lilack in a small area next to the 

 hoofs. • 



Young al)()ut the same size were afterwards seen at Pozo de Lnis. 

 in northwestern Sonora, in January, ISO?), which were of a pale l)uff 

 or clay color, Avitli a less distinct vertebral black stripe. 



Cranial and dental characters. — The lateral dentition seems to be 

 simpler and lighter than in Tayassii anfjidatum (typical). The pre- 

 molars are usually quadritubercular with one of the inner tubercles 

 often obsolete. The posterior molar is smaller and less roughened 

 by needle-like sub>;idiary tubercles. The skull itself is slightly 

 broader than that of T. aiic/idatiim. (See figs. 4, 5, and 6.) 



Mcasiirciuciiis of ilircc xix'ciniciis of Tai/assii aiuiulatuia soiirtricnsc. 



Local itv. 



(^iijon Bonito Creek, Sonora, 

 Me.\ico, near Mexican 

 boundary line. 



San Bernardino River, Son- 

 ora, Mexico, near Monu- 

 ment No. 77, Mexican 

 boundary line. 



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Date. 



Rex 

 and 

 age. 



.iC 



Aug. 11 9 ad. 954 



Sei)t. K , ^f ad. 



(<•) i 9 ad. 940 



h Q 



90 



116 



mm 

 130 



mm 

 100 



buS 





mm ,111111 mill 

 85! 210 L'Hu- 



KS 200 800 



285 



Type. 



Mounted. 



Sent alive to W.isliin^ton. 



Life Jiisto)'}/. — Skins of peccaries killed in the Apache Mountains 

 near Monument No. 40, Mexican Boundary Line, were the first unmis- 

 iakable evidence seen of the existence of these animals as Ave pro- 

 ceeded westAvard from the Rio Grande. Specimens Avere subsequently 

 taken in the San Luis, Guadalupe, and Santa Cruz mountains, 

 and in the valley of the San Bernardino RiA^r. On the San Luis 

 Mountains they Avere found from the loAver edge of timl)er up to the 

 highest summits, as Avell as on those parts of the surrounding jdains 

 and 2:)layas where the nolinas, mesquites, and mimosas grcAV abun- 

 dantly. 



We found evidences of the former presence of peccaries in the 

 Huachuca Mountains^ Arizona, AAdiere soldiers under the command of 

 Capt. Louis A. Craig killed some of them a fcAV years before. Speci- 

 mens Avere seen in 1802 in the collection of Col. R. F. Hafford, at 

 Tombstone, Arizona. 



]Maj. E. K. Otey, of Prescott, Arizona, found peccaries in the Mule 

 Mountains of southern Arizona; and Genei'al ('rook found them in 

 Tonto Basin, Avhere the Avriter saAV their tracks as far north as Pine 



