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lower jaw, which clearly distinguishes it from the Wart-Hog of 

 the Cape Colony. 



The skin of this animal is scantily bristled and of an earthy 

 color. A mane, commencing between the ears, runs abng the 

 neck and back, made up of long bristly hairs, some of them ten 

 inches long. These bristles and those found on the other parts 

 of the body, are light brown. With the exception of the back, 

 the body has a naked appearance. The head is broad along the 

 brow, which is rather depressed ; the eyes are small and very 

 high up on the head ; and two large warts appear, one on or near 

 the cheek, called the larger wart, and the smaller one along side 

 the cheek. These warts are formed of thickened skinny tissue; 

 are smaller in this species than in the Wart-Hog of the Cape. 

 The eyes are small; the tail thin, and nearly bare, with a tuft 

 of hair at the end. On the fore feet is a piece of thick, hard, 

 protuberant skin. These animals haunt low bushes, and forests, 

 creeping on their bent fore feet, in search of food, and in tin's 

 posture, digging up the roots of plants on which they feed with 

 their enormous canine teeth ; the hind legs pushing the body for- 

 ward as it moves in this position. 



P. Aethiopicus, or Aethiopian Wart-Hog, has larger warts than 

 the preceding, and a more singularly formed head. 



Dicotyles, (Gr. dig, dis, two ; xoruL/, kotule, hollow, or cavity.) 

 The PECCARIES. 



These animals are native to South America ; of a short, com- 

 pact form, thickly covered on the upper parts of the body with 

 large and strong dark colored bristles, and marked by yellowish 

 white rings; and round the neck is usually a whitish band or col- 

 lar. By their general appearance and propensities, they are 

 closely allied to the True Swine; but they differ from them in 

 respect to their teeth, having four instead of six incisors in the 

 upper jaw, and six instead of seven molars on each side ; their 

 tusks also differ from those of the common hog, not turning up 

 and projecting out of the mouth, but having the usual direction as 

 in other animals; the hind feet have only three toes, the external 

 toe on each foot being absent; and the limbs are more slender, 

 the head shorter, and the snout longer than in the common hog. 

 The tail is merely rudimentary, and not visible. The most deci- 

 ded characteristic is its having a glandular opening on the loins, 

 which secretes a fetid and disgusting odor, infecting the flesh 

 when the animal is killed, unless immediately cut away; in that 

 case it is tolerable food. There are two species of the Peccary. 



Dicotyles lorquatus, (Lat. torques, a collar.) The COLLARED 

 PECCARY, li has its name " Collared" from a line of white which 



