380 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Notophorus torquatus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 44, Cat. 



Carnivora, etc. Brit. Mus. p. 351, 1871 ; Hand-List Thich- 



sMnned Mamm. Brit Mus. p. 53, 1873. 

 TayassTi tayassu, Stone and Cram, American Animals, pi. facing 



p. 30, 1903. 



Pecari Tajacd. 



Typical locality Brazil. 



Smaller than D. 2]('C'((ri, the average length of the head 

 and body being about 36 inches ; general colour dark blackish 

 grey, with a white or whitish band passing across the chest 

 from shoulder to shoulder. 



The following races are recognised : — 



A. General colour grizzled grey or tawny. 



a. Skull relatively large, long, narrow, and vaulted .... D. t. tajacu. 

 h. Skull smaller, shorter, wider and depressed D. t. torvus. 



B. General colour almost uniform black D. t. niqer. 



A.— Dicotyles tajacu tajacu. 



Typical locality southern Brazil. 



Skull relatively large, long, narrow, and vaulted ; general 

 colour grizzled grey or tawny. 



720, i. Skull. Locality unknown.* No history. 



38. 4. 16. 86. Skull. Locality unknown. 



Purchased (Stevens), 1838. 



41. 12. 20. 1 (35, h). Skin, mounted. Locality unknown. 



Presented hij B. Cross, Esq., 1841. 



5.5, h. Skin, immature, mounted. No history. 



43. 5. 16. 8 (720, a). Skull. Organ Mountains, Brazil ; 

 collected by Dr. G-ardner. Purchased, 1843. 



44. 2. 7. 11. Skin, young. Locality unknown. 



Purchased (Zeadheater), 1844. 

 50. 11. 22. 49 (720, c). Skull. Locality unknown. 



Purchased (Zoological Society), 1850 



55. 12. 26. 154 (720, d). Skull. Locality unknown. 



Same history, 1855. 



56. 12. 30. 2 (720, e). Skeleton. Locality unknown. 



Same history, 1856. 



* The reference to this race of specimens of unknown locality is 

 provisional. 



