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B.— Dieotyles tajacu torvus. 



Tayassu torvus, Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, voL xii, p. 164, 



' 1898. 

 Diootyles tajacu ioToya&jIjydekTier, Qreat and Small Game of JSuroxje, 



etc. p. 382, 1901. 

 Tagassu torvus, Elliot, Cat. Mamm. Field Mus. {Field Mus. Zool. 



Puh. vol. viii) p. 35, 1907. 

 Tayassu torvum, Osgood, Field Mus. Zool. Puh. vol. x, p. 46, 1912. 



Typical locality Santa Marta district, Colombia. 

 Type in U.S. National Museum, Washington. 

 Skull relatively small, short, wide, and depressed. 



The reference of the foUoiving specimens to this race is 

 jirovisional : — 



97. 11. 7. 56. Skull and skin, young. Cachavi, Ecuador ; 

 collected by Mr. W. F. H. Eosenberg. Purchased, 1897. 



99. 10. 3. 65. Skull and skin, young. Near Bogota, 

 Colombia ; collected by Mr. G. D. Child. 



Presented ty 0. Thomas, Usq., 1899. 

 14. 11. 6. 2. Skull and skin. Eio Cesar Valley, 

 Colombia ; collected by W. K. Pomeroy, Esq. 



Presented hy the Zoological Society, 1914. 



C. — Dieotyles tajacu niger. 



Dieotyles torquatus, Tomes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 262 ; nee Cuvier. 

 Tayassu niger, Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. xxxii, p. 476, 

 1913. 



Typical locality Esmeraldas, Ecuador. 



Type in American Museum of Natural History, New 

 York. 



Differs from both the preceding races by the general 

 colour being nearly uniform black instead of grizzled grey 

 or tawny. 



97. 11. 7. 56. Skin, young female, provisionally referred 

 to this race. Cachavi, Ecuador. 



Presented hy 0. Thomas, Mq., 1897 



