46  Fretp Museum or Natura History — Zo6étLocy, Vor. X. 
Tayassu torvum Bangs. Collared Peccary. 
Two specimens, Maracaibo. 
Peccaries are fairly common in the vicinity of Maracaibo, but al- 
though many tracks and at least one adult animal were seen, no speci- 
mens were obtained except two little ones only a few days old which 
were purchased alive in Maracaibo. These were led into my hotel 
room one morning trotting at the end of a string like a pair of puppies. 
I kept them alive for a few days in a corner of the room screened off 
by a woven wire bed spring. This was not altogether sufficient and 
had to be covered at the top, for much to my surprise, the little squealers 
were able to climb over. They would get in the angle, put their backs 
against the wall and their little hoofs in the meshes of wire and quickly 
scramble to the top and leap three and a half feet to the floor. At 
other times they did not seriously object to being handled, but when 
stopped in these attempts to escape, they snapped viciously with their 
tiny needle-pointed tusks. I gave them a plate of milk, but although I 
rubbed their noses in it and otherwise forced it upon them, it was some 
time before they understood it, although squealing with hunger all the 
while. Finally the larger more active one managed to suck up a little 
but the other seemed content to stand in the plate or to slide around in 
the milk spilled on the floor, constantly getting tangled up in his own 
umbilicus which dragged after him. Later they learned to eat rolled 
oats and water and sopped around in it with contented little grunts, 
which were much more agreeable than the plaintive squealing with 
which they had introduced themselves. 
The color of these young peccaries, which were eventually made 
into specimens, is bright rufescent tawny thinly mixed with black, 
except a line from the occiput to the rump which is intense, sharply 
defined black. 
The use of the name torvum for these specimens is necessarily provis- 
ional, since they are much too young for satisfactory identification. 
Local name Bdquiro. 
Tapirus terrestris Linneus. Tapir. 
One specimen (skull), Empalado Savannas. 
Contrary to our expectations, tapirs were found in relatively arid 
lowlands in regions of rather thin forest and little plant life of a succu- 
lent character. ‘Tracks were seen in the sandy bottom of a dry quebrada 
a few miles west of El Guayabal near Cucuta, Colombia, and numerous 
others in a somewhat similar place in the Empalado Savannas east of 
