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be killed in the close season without a special license signed 
by the Secretary of Agriculture; nor can any skins, heads or 
antlers of protected game be transported from Alaska with- 
out permits. 
At present (1914) Congress makes an annual appropria- 
tion of $25,000 for the pay of twelve wardens to protect 
Alaskan game, but the special killing privileges of the Indians 
are entirely wrong and should at once be withdrawn. In the 
killing of game all Indians, and all other natives, should be 
governed by the same rules as those made to control white 
men. 
THE PECCARY FAMILY 
Tayassuidae 
The wild swine of the world form a group which contains 
several remarkable forms. 
The wart hog of Africa has a head of such a remarkable 
form that at first sight it seems like one of the sports of 
nature. The red river-hog of West Africa is the most beauti- 
ful of all swine, and its immaculate red coat, and long, slender 
ears produced to infinity in the form of a waving pencil of 
threadlike hairs, renders this animal acceptable in any zoolog- 
ical garden. 
Tue CoLiareD Prccary! is our nearest and best-known 
representative of the wild swine. Its northern limit is the 
Red River and the valley of the Rio Grande, in Texas, and 
southward it ranges to Patagonia. In northwestern Sonora 
it has recently been obtained by Dr. D. T. MacDougall 
1 Tay'as-su ta’ja-cu. 
