CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PECCARY 123 
to be available. An enraged Peccary, athirst for blood, is 
to any one not armed with a rifle or a first-rate spear a for- 
midable antagonist. But for their tusks and dauntless cour- 
age when attacked, these animals could not have long sur- 
vived in forests infested by savage jaguars, pumas, wolves 
and ocelots. Truly, it seems as if this species represents the 
survival of one of the fittest. 
In our southwestern states the regular food of the Peccary 
consists of acorns, pecans, farmers’ crops, seeds and edible 
roots of many kinds, and (it is said). also frogs, lizards, snakes 
and all other ground animals it can catch. If the musk gland 
situated on the top of the hind quarters is cut out as soon as 
a Peccary is killed, the flesh will be saved from the musky 
flavor and odor which without this precaution would soon 
render it unpalatable. | 
The Collared Peccary derives its name from a ribbon-like 
band of white which encircles the animal about where the 
neck joins the shoulders. Other than this, the hair is of a 
black color, sprinkled with gray. 
Tue Waire-Lippep Preccary! is a much larger species 
than the preceding, with white hair on its upper lips. It is 
found only as far north as southern Mexico, but ranges 
southward to Paraguay. 
Living specimens rarely reach zoological gardens, and 
during the first thirteen years of its existence the New York 
Zoological Park never succeeded in securing even one speci- 
men. 
1 Tay’as-su al-bt-ros'tre. 
