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12. 12. 19. 14. Skull and skin. Same locality. 



Same history. 



12. 12. 19. 15. Skull and skin. Same locality. 



Same history. 



13. 6. 8. 14. Skull and skin. Manarica Creek, Essequibo 

 Valley. Same donor, 1913. 



13. 12. 12. 4. Skull and skin, very young. Supinaam 

 Valley. Same history. 



B. Dicotyles pecari ringens. 



Tayassu albirostris ringens, Merriam, Proc. BioL Soc. Washington, 



vol. xiv, p. 121, 1901. 

 Tayassu pecari ringens, Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. xvi, 



p. 166, 1902 ; Miller, List Mamm. N. Amer. p. 384, 1912. 

 Tagassu pecari ringens, Elliot, Mamm. Mid. Amer. and W. Indies 



(Field Mus. Zool. Pub. vol. iv), p. 66, 1904, Check-List Mamm. 



N. Amer. etc. (ibid. vol. vi) p. 37, 1905. 



Typical locality Apazote, State of Campeche, Mexico. 



Type in U.S. National Museum, Washington. 



Similar in general characters to typical race, but with a 

 greater extension of whitish face-markings the light area 

 including the whole muzzle from tip to midway between 

 nose and eyes, and extending backwards along sides of lower 

 jaw to below ears the presence of an ill-defined white band 

 above each pair of hind-hoofs, and the grizzled black and 

 fulvous under-parts. 



No specimen in collection. 



C. Dicotyles pecari spiradens. 



Tayassu albirostris spiradens, Goldman, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. xxv, p. 189, 1912. 



Typical locality Talanaanca, Costa Eica. 



Type in U.S. National Museum, Washington. 



Resembles D. p. ringens in size and colour, but still more 

 white on face, sometimes extending to eyes; molars wider 

 and first lower premolar smaller. Distinguished from T. p. 

 pecari by more convex profile of brain-case, the narrower 

 front portion of lower premolars, and more evenly tapering 

 lower cheek-teeth row. 



No specimen in collection. 



