BREEDS AND TYPES D5 



On the rear extremity of the backs of both male aiul 

 female is a gland which secretes a very fetid fluid. The}- 

 are not esteemed for or much used as food. If taken 

 young they are easily domesticated, but do not cross 

 witii the common hog. The females give birth to young 

 but once a year, usually to one and sometimes to tv^o. 

 Of the two species the Collared peccary (Dicotylcs tor- 

 qiiatiis or Dicotylcs fajacu), presumably known to the 

 Spanish speaking inhabitants of the southern part of 

 the United States and Central and South America as 

 "javelina." ranges from southwest Arkansas and Texas 

 west possibly as far as California and south to Pata- 

 gonia. They forage in couples or in small herds of 

 eight or ten. The White-Lipped peccary (D. labiafiis) as- 

 sociates in large herds, and its range is comparatively 

 small, including only the region between British Hon- 

 duras and Paraguay. 



WILD HOGS 



In the delta of the Colorado river, not far from the 

 borders of Arizona and California, are wild hogs de- 

 scribed as "razor-backed, long-limbed, sharp-tusked, fast 

 as horses, shifty as jackrabbits and when cornered, fe- 

 rocious as tigers." Tusks of the old boars are spoken 

 of as "scimitar-shaped, razor-sharp, needle-pointed and 

 enormous, and driven by a sinewy neck will lay open 

 anything softer tlian a i)late of chrome steel." There 

 are no great numbers of these swine, and they are grad- 

 ually being killed off by parties of Mexican hunters who 

 slaughter them for meat. It is tradition that they are 



