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are heavily and almost symmetrically marked with white, the remainder 
of the pelage being drabbish brown, paler on the under parts. The 
face has the usual white frontal marking and the blackish streak crossing 
the eye. The chin and throat have numerous hairs broadly tipped with 
chestnut. The skull differs in many respects from that of tridactyla 
from Guiana and there can be no question of its distinctness. Whether 
it should be given a new name or not can be determined only by examina- 
tion of various old types most of which are in European museums and 
lacking in exact data. Gray’s name blainvillet has been used for speci- 
mens from the Ucayali River! probably representing the species to which 
our specimen belongs, but as the original basis of the name was a skull 
without definite locality, there is no certainty in its use at present. 
Tayassu pecari Fischer. WHITE-LIPPED PECCARY. 
Two specimens, Tambo Almirante. 
Peccaries range through the heavy forest of the east slope of the 
eastern cordillera up to an altitude of 6,000 ft. or more. The natives 
carrying freight between Chachapoyas and Moyobamba generally have 
with them old fashioned guns mainly in the hope that they may en- 
counter a herd of these animals the flesh of which they highly prize. 
Perhaps for this reason, we saw but few tracks near the main trail. 
Returning to camp one morning during a heavy downpour of rain, 
I heard a faint sound from a wooded quebrada some distance below me 
and was just concluding it to be the note of some unknown bird less 
distant, when a breath of wind brought it more clearly to my ears and 
I recognized a squealing, piglike quality in it. Going a little nearer, 
I was no longer in doubt and’ following the sound, soon worked my 
way through heavy timber and thick underbrush to the edge of a sharp 
cut bank which dropped some thirty feet down to the bottom of the 
practically waterless quebrada. The growling, squealing din was then 
just below me and added to it was the lively click of snapping tusks — 
apparently only a family quarrel, but being waged with considerable 
vigor. For a few seconds I could see nothing but an occasional waving 
bush. Then I gradually made out the dark bodies of several peccaries 
moving about on the other side and near the bottom of the quebrada. 
They were difficult to see since there was a heavy growth of large brake 
ferns under which they were passing and in the deep shade their blackish 
bodies gave little contrast to the ground. Picking out two of the 
largest ones, I dropped them in their tracks and was just aiming at a 
1 Gray, Handlist Edentate, Thick-skinned, and Ruminant Mammals, p. 4, 1873. 
