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Lipped relative, but is found furtiier north than the last-named 

 species, "its range extending from Arkansas and Texas to the Rio 

 Negro in Patagonia." Both species haunt the dense forests, and in 

 some districts of South America ascend to an altitude of several 

 thousand feet. They make their homes among the cover afforded 

 by the forest, or else take advantage of a burrow made by some other 

 wild beast, or dwell in the snug retreat of a hollow tree. These 

 Peccaries appear to be chiefly vegetarians, and hence differ from 

 those animals treated of earlier, but it is stated that they vary their 

 bill of fare by partaking of insects, worms or carrion. 



