66 TAGASSU. 
Size large; mane long, bristly; skull large, heavy; nasals flat on 
top; sides of rostrum flattened, swollen over premolars and not 
divided by zygomatic ridge; palate broad, flat and without ridge 
between first molar and inner side of canine; zygomatic ridge dis- 
appearing over second premolar. Second lower molar with posterior 
cusp as long and high as the anterior. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES AND SUBSPEGIES: 
A. Rostrum and nasals broadly flattened. PAGE 
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b. Breast and under parts grizzled black and 
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49. pecari (Tayassu), Fischer, Zoogn., 111, 1814, p. 285. 
albirostris (Sus), Illiger, Abandl, K, Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 
LOG sb ks. 
labiatus Cuv., Régn. Anim., 1, 1817, p. 238. 
WHITE-LIPPED Peccary. Warree, Caribbanco, in Costa Rica. 
Type locality. Paraguay. 
Geogr. Distr. Guatemala, Central America to Paraguay in South 
America. 
Genl. Char. Size large; lips and breast white; cranial characters 
conspicuous. 
Color. Top of head and upper part of face, from above angle of 
mouth to a line with the ear, dark rufous brown, palest on cheeks; 
rest of upper parts, sides and limbs to heels, dark reddish brown 
and black; snout flesh color; upper lips and top of nose, chin, lower 
parts of cheeks, throat, breast and under parts white; limbs below 
heels light brown, with a blackish brown patch in front; hoofs black; 
ears paler than head. 
Measurements. About the same as the following subspecies. 
Skull: occipito-nasal length, 250; Hensel, 213; zygomatic breadth, 103; 
interorbital constriction, 60; length of nasals, 84; palatal length, 163; 
breadth of basi-occipital between bull, posteriorly, 20; length of 
upper tooth row, 72; length of mandible, exclusive of incisors, 184; 
height of condyle, 79; at coronoid process, 88; length of lower molar 
series, 79. 
a.—ringens (Tayassu), Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XIV, 1901, 
p- Da2 lee 
SAVAGE PECCARY. 
Type locality. Apazote, near Yohaltun, State of Campeche, 
Mexico. 
