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lair in hollow logs, or in caves among the rocks, and both 

 are gregarious in their habits. In this last habit, how' 

 ever, there is some difference. The white-lipped species 

 associate in troops to the number of hundreds, and even 

 as many as a thousand have been seen together ; whereas 

 the others do not live in such large droves, but are oftener 

 met with in pairs. Yet this difference of habit may 

 arise from the fact that in the places where both have 

 been observed, the latter have not been so plenty as the 

 white-lipped species. I myself have seen nearly a hun- 

 dred of the collared peccary in one "gang," and no 

 doubt had there been more of them in the neighborhood, 

 the flock would have been still larger. 



The white-lipped species does not extend to the north- 

 ern half of the American continent. Its habitat is in 

 the great tropical forest of Guyana and Brazil, and it is 

 found much further south, being common in Paraguay. 

 It is there known as the "vaquira," whence our word 

 "peccary."' The other species is also found in South 

 America, and is distinguished as the " vaquira de collar" 

 (collared peccary.) Of course they both have trivial 

 Indian names, differing in different parts of the country. 

 The former is called in Paraguay " Tagnicati," while the 

 latter is the "Taytetou." Neither species is so numer- 

 ous as they were in former times. They have been thin- 

 ned off by hunting not for the value either of their 



