382 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



B. Dicotyles tajacu torvus. 



Tayassu torvus, Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wasliington, vol. xii, p. 164, 



1898. 

 Dicotyles tajacu torvus, Lydekher, Great and Small Game of Europe, 



etc. p. 382, 1901. 

 Tagassu torvus, Elliot, Cat. Mamm. Field Mus. (Field Mus. Zool. 



Pub. vol. viii) p. 35, 1907. 

 Tayassu torvum, Osgood, Field Mus. Zool. Pub. vol. x, p. 46, 1912. 



Typical locality Santa Marta district, Colombia. 

 Type in U.S. National Museum, Washington. 

 Skull relatively small, short, wide, and depressed. 



The reference of the following specimens to this race is 

 provisional : 



97. 11. 7. 56. Skull and skin, young. Cachavi, Ecuador ; 

 collected by Mr. W. F. H. Eosenberg. Purchased, 1897. 



99. 10. 3. 65. Skull and skin, young. Near Bogota, 

 Colombia ; collected by Mr. G. D. Child. 



Presented ly 0. Thomas, Esq., 1899. 



14. 11. 6. 2. Skull and skin. Eio Cesar Valley, 

 Colombia ; collected by W. K. Pomeroy, Esq. 



Presented ly the Zoological Society, 1914. 



C. Dicotyles tajacu niger. 



Dicotyles torquatus, Tomes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 262 ; nee Cuvier. 

 Tayassu niger, Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. xxxii, p. 476, 

 1913. 



Typical locality Esmeraldas, Ecuador. 



Type in American Museum of Natural History, New 

 York. 



Differs from both the preceding races by the general 

 colour being nearly uniform black instead of grizzled grey 

 or tawny. 



97. 11. 7. 56. Skin, young female, provisionally referred 

 to this race. Cachavi, Ecuador. 



Presented ly 0. Thomas, Esq., 1897 



