PACHYDERM ATA DJCOTYLES TORQUATUS. 



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DICOTYLES, Cuvier. 



Dicotyles, CUVIER, " R. A. (1st ed.) I, 1817." 



AUD. & BACH. N. Am. Quad. I, 1849, 233. 



The genus Dicotyles, embracing the peccaries, has been sufficiently indicated in the preceding 

 article for my present purposes. Time will not allow me to go into any extended description of 

 its essential peculiarities of form and dentition. 



DICOTYLES TORQUATUS, Guv. 



Texas or Collared Peccary ; Mexican Hog. 



Sus tajacu, LINN. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 103, (in part.) 



Sus tagassa, ERXLEBEN, Syst. 1777, 185, (in part.) 



Dicotyles torquatus, F. CUVIER, Diet, des Sc. Nat. IX, 1817, 518. 



DESM. Maram. II, 1822, 392. 



HARLAN, F. Am. 1825, 220. 



WAGNER, Suppl. Schreber, IV, 1844, 306. 



AUD. & BACH. N. Am. Quad. I, 1849, 235; pi. xxvi. 



GIEBEL, Saugt. 1855, 234. 



Sus torquatus, WAGNER, Schreber's Saugt. VI, 1835, 498 ; pi. cccxxv, cccxxv, A. (Sus tagassu on plates.) 

 Pecari a collitr, ST. HILAIRE ET Cuv. Mamm. Ill, 1819; plate. 



Sp. CH A white collar, more or less distinct, proceeding from the shoulders on each side of the neck. 



The preceding brief diagnosis, taken from Wagner, is sufficient to distinguish the collared 

 peccary from the only other known species, the D. labiatus, in which the lower jaw is white and 

 there is no white collar. The materials before me are not sufficient to furnish any satisfactory 

 description of the external form of the animal, consisting only of two hides, without head and 

 feet. For full details on the structure and habits of the species, I would refer to the admirable 

 article on the quadrupeds of North America, as quoted above. 



The peccary has a much wider range in North America than is supposed by European syste 

 matic writers. It not only occurs through Mexico, but even as far north in the United States 

 as the Ked river of Arkansas, in latitude 34. Its western limit is not well ascertained, though 

 it is said by some to occur in California. 



List of specimens. 



