1904.] Allen, Mammals from Santa Maria, Colombia, 423 



This extra tooth is small, and stands at the front end of 

 the toothrow. In a specimen of C. hispidus there is also an 

 extra upper tooth on the right side, but in this case it is a 

 small tooth at the posterior end of the toothrow. 



10. Trichechus manatus Linn. Although not repre- 

 sented in the collection the following is of interest. 



"MANATEE. Found along the coast, especially about the 

 mouths of the rivers Buritaca and Don Diego, and other 

 rivers further east ; when the waters are high they enter these 

 streams to feed on the grass. In August and September, 

 when the sea is generally calm, parties of fishermen go down 

 from Santa Marta and Taganga to fish for manatee; the 

 animals are harpooned from large canoes. In September, 

 1899, we made a trip to the Buritaca on purpose to get man- 

 atee ; but the object was frustrated by unusually heavy winds 

 and high seas, making fishing impossible. Several of the 

 animals were seen as they came to the surface, a quarter-mile 

 from the beach. The manatee seems to be purely herbivorous 

 in its diet, eating grass, and perhaps algae. Its flesh is much 

 esteemed." H. H. S. 



12. Tagassu torvum (Bangs). Thirty-five specimens, as 

 follows : 1 2 skins with skulls ; 3 skins with skeletons ; 2 skins 

 without skulls; 13 skulls without skins; 4 skeletons without 

 skins. About 20 were taken at Naranja, 6 at Bonda, 3 at 

 Quebra Mojada, and others (mostly without data) at these or 

 neighboring localities. The greater part were taken in Janu- 

 ary and July ; others in March, August, October, and Decem- 

 ber. They are all adult except two half-grown young. Un- 

 fortunately the sex of the specimens is not indicated, nor were 

 external measurements taken, the specimens having been 

 killed and skinned by native hunters. 



In describing this species (from a single adult male), Mr. 

 Bangs gave no account of its external characters, beyond 

 saying: "Size smaller than in either T. tajacu of southern 

 Brazil or T. angulatus of Texas. Color and external char- 

 acters as in these two species." The present large series, 

 however, on comparison with some thirty or more specimens 

 of the angulatum group from Mexico and the southern border 



