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Peccary has never been known to breed with it. 

 They frequently go together, and feed in the same 

 woods ; but hitherto no intermediate breed has 

 been known to arise from their intercourse. 



M. de la Borde describes two kinds of this animal, 

 one smaller than the other. He relates, that 

 being one day engaged with some others in hunt- 

 ing a drove of Peccaries, they were surrounded by 

 them, and obliged to take refuge upon a piece of 

 rock; and notwithstanding they kept up a constant 

 fire among them, the creatures did not retire till a 

 great number of them were shot. 



