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WHITE-LIPPED PECARY. 



species, and will not even frequent the places of 

 their resort. 



THE TAGNICATI, OR WHITE-LIPPED PECARY, (Dicotyles Idbiatus.) 



The forests in which these animals ahound are 

 the favourite resort of the celebrated Campanero of 

 the Spaniards, which inhabit, in common with many 

 other parts of South America, the beautiful woods 

 on either side the Essequebo, and among those hills 

 which rise in fine gradations one above the other, 

 and are covered with trees of gigantic size and 

 height. Their foliage is sometimes of a lively 

 purple, and again of the deepest green, while the 

 caracara, a brilliant creeper, extends its scarlet blos- 

 soms from branch to branch, and gives to such as it 

 adorns the effect of being hung with garlands. This 

 is the haunt of the campanero, and there his melan- 



