SUID.K 375 



Small, tailless, pig-like animals, with thick bristly coats, 

 small, ovate, erect ears, and a large glandular area rather 

 behind the middle of the back, which secretes a strongly- 

 smelling musky oleaginous substance. 



The subfamily is divisible into the two following sub- 

 genera (genera of many naturalists) : 



A. Mane and dorsal crest long, and reaching rump ; nasals 



and sides of cranial rostrum flattened; palate broad.... Dicotyles. 



B. Mane and dorsal crest shorter and not reaching rump ; 



nasals and sides of cranial rostrum not flattened; 



palate narrow Pccari. 



1. SUBGENUS DICOTYLES. 



Mane and dorsal crest long and extending backwards to 

 rump ; upper surface of nasals and sides of cranial rostrum 

 flattened, the latter not divided by zygomatic ridge, which 

 rises abruptly to top of skull, where it dies out above second 

 premolar; palate broad and flat, without ridge between 

 anterior premolar and inner surface of canine ; no depression 

 on preorbital portion of zygomatic root. 



The distributional area extends from Mexico to Paraguay. 



I. DICOTYLES PECARI. 



Tayassu pecari, Fisher, Zoognosia, vol. iii, p. 285, 1814; Allen, 

 Butt. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. xvi, p. 165, 1902 ; Miller, List 

 N. Amer. Mamm. p. 384, 1912. 



Sus albirostris, Illiger, Abli. Ak. Sci. Berlin, 1811, p. 115, 1815 (separate 

 copies are stated to have been issued in 1811). 



Dicotyles labiatus, Cuvier, Eegne Animal, vol. i, p. 237, 1817; 

 Desmarest, Mammalogie, vol. ii, pp. 394 and 620, 1822 ; Griffith. 

 Animal Kingdom, vol. v, p. 290, 1827 ; Eengger, Sdugeth. 

 Paraguay, p. 322, 1830 ; Tschudi, Fauna Peruv. p. 217, 1844 ; 

 Frantzius, Arch. Naturgesch. vol. i, p. 296, 1855 ; Burmeister, 

 Syst. Uebersicht, vol. i, p. 325, 1855, Descrip. Phys. Eepub. 

 Argent, vol. iii, p. 472, 1879 ; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 45, 

 Cat. Carnivora, etc. Brit. Mus. p. 352, 1869, Hand-List Thiclc- 

 skinned Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 54, 1873; Alston, Biol. Centr.- 

 Amer., Mamm. p. 108, pi. x, 1882 ; Flower and Garson, Cat. Ostcol. 

 Mus. E. Coll. Surg. pt. ii, p. 343, 1884 ; LydeJcJcer, Cat. Foss. 

 Mamm. Brit. Mus. pt, ii, p. 251, 1885, Great and Small Game 

 of Europe, etc. p. 383, 1901 ; Flower and LydeMer, Study of 

 Mammals, p. 290, 1891 ; Stehlin, Abh. schweiz. pal. Ges. vol. xxvi, 

 p. 209, 1899 ; Weber, Sdugethiere, p. 652, 1904. 



Notophorus pecari, Fischer, Mem. Soc. Moscou, vol. v, p. 373, 1817. 



