1904.] Allen, Mammals from Santa Maria, Colombia. 427 



13. Tagassu (Olidosus) pecari (Fisher). Twenty-six 

 specimens, as follows: skins with skulls, 15; skin with skele- 

 ton, i; skins without skulls, 8; skeletons without skins, 2; 

 skulls without skins, 6. Three were taken at Calavasa, the 

 others at Naranja; 7 were collected in January, 4 in March, 

 3 in July, 3 in August, 2 in October, i in December, and 5 

 are without date. 



All are adult except 5 ; these include four young a few days 

 old and one young about one fourth grown. Only three have 

 the sex indicated, and two only have external measurements, 

 as follows: 



Females, Nos. 14871 and 14872, total length, for each, 

 "3 ft. 7 in." (992 mm.). 



MEASUREMENTS ' OF 9 SKULLS OP Tagassu pecari FROM 

 SANTA MARTA, COLOMBIA. 



In the absence of specimens of Olidosus from other localities 

 no comparison can be "made between the present and allied 

 forms. 



The adults of the present series are black, more or less 

 varied with rufous, the amount of rufous varying in different 

 specimens. On the body the hairs are mainly wholly black, 

 mixed with others ringed or tipped with rufous ; on the sides 

 of the head the rufous is generally a conspicuous feature of 



1 For explanation of measurements see p. 426. Measurements of the audital bulla 

 arc omitted, since the length cannot be given, the posterior part of the bulla being 

 concealed by the overlying exoccipital. 



