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TROPICAL AMERICA AND ITS ANIMALS 



in this extensive tract. Many naturalists substitute the barbarous name Tajagu 

 for the appropriate Dicotyles. 



The white-lipped peccary (D. labiatus) is a somewhat larger animal; the 

 northern boundary of whose habitat is formed by British Honduras, while Paraguay 

 constitutes its southern limits. 



COLLARED PECCARIES. 



Tapirs. 



The only other group of South American hoofed animals is that 

 of the tapirs, which, like the guanaco, are originally immigrants from 

 the north. The Brazilian tapir (Tapirus terrestris), when adult, is dark brown, 

 or blackish in colour, as are the other three American species, and its ears 

 have white edges. Its range includes Brazil, Paraguay, and northern Argentina, 



