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THE WHITE LIPPED PECCARY. 



Dycoteles Idblatus. CUVIER. 

 PLATE XXVII. 



Taquicati Azara Dicoteles labiatus, Cuv La Tojacu, 

 Fred. Cuvier The White Lipped Peccary, JBennet, 

 Gardens of ZooL Soc. i. p. 60. 



THIS species is considerably larger than the 

 last, but is at once distinguished from it by its 

 darker colour, and the conspicuous white margins 

 of the lips. The hairs on the body are black, 

 with a few brownish rings, which are most con- 

 spicuous about the head, and thence modify the 

 tint. The whole of the under lip, the sides of the 

 mouth and nose, are white, whence the name ; and 

 the mane and hair about the head are so long as 

 nearly to conceal the ears. In the young animal 

 Mr Bennet mentions, the skin is more varied, 

 being in some degree striped like that of the 

 young Wild Boar of Europe. But these stripes 

 are lost by degrees as the animal advances in 

 age, and few traces of them remain after the first 



