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MiUull.NU PECCAUIES IN SOUTH AMERICA. 



and dwelling in the hollows of trees or the deserted burrows of other animals. When 

 i the vicinity of towns and villages, whirl:, however, is rare, they do great mischief among 



•' Indian corn, sugar-cane, manihot, and potatoes. 

 Collared Pec< ^ry, D. torquatus, is the Patira of Sonnini and the Taytetou of Azara. 

 ii i less than three feet long and seldom weighs over fifty pounds. Its general color is a 

 yell .ray; a whitish line runs down the shoulder obliquely toward the neck resembling a 



ing its distinctive name. This species lives in pairs or small families, usually con- 

 to inhabit the same forests in which it was horn. Its odor is so strong as to infect the air 

 through which the herds pass, and hence the hunters are able to trace them by their scent. 



i d Peccarv the proper Peccary of South America, the Tagnicati of Azara — 

 /'. than the preceding; it is also of a thicker and stouter form, with shorter 



Tie is a hlaekish-gray ; the under lip, sides of the mouth, and 



of the Dose, white. The young are faintly striped. This species lives in large 



inting to a thousand, and stretching out for a league, migrates from one dis- 



other. [f they come across a plantation they devastate it by rooting up its crops; 



tny thing unusual they are thrown into great alarm, which they express by a 



• the teeth. If a hunter ventures to attack one of these herds, he is sure to he torn in 



by the infuriated throng, unless he take to a tree or escape by flight. When excited by 



flash, they rub their snouts together, erect their bristles, and fill the air with their 



This B] 1 to have a less offensive smell than the preceding. 



