MAMMALS OF THE RrEXTCAN BOUNDARY. 109 



A\ itli my ronii'jKic, who also \aiiijy tried to citluT shoot or oxcrtake it. 

 I visited the spot the next day, but sa^Y no peccaries. \\\' next fountl 

 abundant signs of them on the Xariz Mountains to the AvestAvard. 

 When questioning Mexicans at Gila City, Arizona, as to whether 

 there were peccaries in that vicinity, one of the men told me he had 

 killed them on a hill near where the Boundary Line reaches the Colo- 

 rado River; l)ut we saw none on the Colorado or west of Santo Do- 

 mingo, Sonora, where one had been seen in December, 1893. Senor 

 Don Cypriano Ortego saw a peccary at one of his ranches, 3 miles 

 south of Santo Domingo, about January 5, 1894. He informed me of 

 their abundance in a high range northeast of Sonoyta. 



Maj. John G. Bourke's instructive book, entitled On the Border 

 wi<^h Crook, contains several allusions to the peccary as an inhabit- 

 ant of Arizona and Sonora. General Crook found them in various 

 ]7arts of southern Arizona, as well as at the type locality in Sonora, 

 for liourke observes (p. 473) : 



The next inoniiiiK r-T:innar.v. ISSC] we struclv out southeast [from San Rer- 

 iiai-(liiu) Springs, Monument No. 771 aci'oss a country full of little hills of drift 

 and coi'.glomerato. passing the t-anyons of the Guadalupe and the Ronito. the 

 former dry, the latter flowing water. A drove of the wild hogs (peccaries or 

 musk hogs, called " jal)ali " by tlie IMexicans) ran across the path; instantly the 

 scouts took after them at a full run, " Ka-e-ten-na " shooting one through tlie 

 lie»ad while his horse was going at full speed, and the others securing four or 

 five more ; they were not eaten. 



Again Bourke writes (p. 137) : 



Our line of travel lay due east 110 miles 'to old Fort Bowie, thence north 

 through the mountains to Camp Apache, thence across an unmapped region 

 over and at the base of the great Mogollon Range to Camp Verde and Prescott. 

 on the west. In all, some 070 miles were traveled. Our commanding general 

 I George Crookl showed himself to he a man who took the dee])est interest in 

 everything we had to toll, whether it was of ])ec<'ai'ies chased off en one side of 

 tlie roa<l, ete. 



Fi-om General Crook I also ascertained that they were inhabitants 

 of the whole San l^ecb-o \"allev. Arizona and Sonora. 



Family CEBiVID.F]." 



DEER. 



Frontal appendages, wlien present, in the form of antleis. First 

 molar, at least, in both jaws brachydont. Two orifices to the lach- 

 rymal duct, situated on or inside the rim of the orbit. An antorbital 



"In the ,vear LS.W a drove of 7.^> Arabian camels (Comcliisi dronirdariiif!) was 

 procured from Sm.yrna b.v the United States (iovernment and distributed over 

 Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. During tlie eivil war the whole of these 

 animals fell into the hands of the Confederates, and were used for carrying 

 the mails, some of them making .iourneys of uitward of 120 miles in a day. At 



