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be killed in the close season without a special license signed 

 by the Secretary of Agriculture; nor can any skins, heads or 

 antlers of protected game be transported from Alaska with- 

 out permits. 



At present (1914) Congress makes an annual appropria- 

 tion of $25,000 for the pay of twelve wardens to protect 

 Alaskan game, but the special killing privileges of the Indians 

 are entirely wrong and should at once be withdrawn. In the 

 killing of game all Indians, and all other natives, should be 

 governed by the same rules as those made to control white 

 men. 



THE PECCARY FAMILY 

 Tayassuidae 



The wild swine of the world form a group which contains 

 several remarkable forms. 



The wart hog of Africa has a head of such a remarkable 

 form that at first sight it seems like one of the sports of 

 nature. The red river-hog of West Africa is the most beauti- 

 ful of all swine, and its immaculate red coat, and long, slender 

 ears produced to infinity in the form of a waving pencil of 

 threadlike hairs, renders this animal acceptable in any zoolog- 

 ical garden. 



The Collared Peccary 1 is our nearest and best-known 

 representative of the wild swine. Its northern limit is the 

 Red River and the valley of the Rio Grande, in Texas, and 

 southward it ranges to Patagonia. In northwestern Sonora 

 it has recently been obtained by Dr. D. T. MacDongall 



1 Tay'as-su ta'ja-cu. 



