2. DIC0ITLE8. 351 



Notophorus torquatus. (Peccary.) B.M . 



Black-brown, yellow-washed ; neck and stoulders with a white 

 streak. 



Sus tajacu, lAnn. S. iV. i. p. 103. 



Sua tajassu, Erxleh. S. M. A. 1. p. 188. 



Sus torquatus, 5?Bmw. Osteogr. Onguligr. Sus, t. 3 (skull), t. 8 (teeth). 



Dicotyles torquatus, Cuv. JR. A. i. p. 237 ; F. Cuv. Bent. Mam. t. 86. 



f. 1 ; Mamm. Lithogr. i. t. ; Fitz. Sitz. Ah. d. Wiss. 1864, p. 49 ; 



P. Z. S. 1859, p. 51, 1860, pp. 181, 206, 242, 262, 417, 443 ; Saird, 



M. N. A. p. 627 ; Blainv. OaUogr. t. 3 (skeleton), t. 5 (skull). 

 Dicotyles minor, Schmz, Cuv. Thierr. iv. p. 511 (jun.). 

 Dicotyles tajacu. Gray, List Mamm. B. M. p. 186; Gerrard, Cat. 



Bones B. M. p. 280. 

 Notophorus torquatus, Gruy, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 44. 

 Cuohe, Oviedo. 



Vagassou, Lerius, Nav. in Bras. p. 115. 

 Saynos, Acosta, H. N. Indias, p. 287. 

 Zainus sive Tajacu, Jonst. Quad. p. 107, t. 46. 

 Tajacu, Piso, Ind. p. 98, fig. ; Baii Syn. Quad. p. 97. 

 Peccary, Wafer, Voy. p. 222. 



Musk-Hog, Tyson, Phil. Trans, cliii. p. 359 ; Hill. Anim. p. 572. 

 Pecari ou tajacu, Buffon, H. N. x. p. 21, t. 3. f. 27, t. 5. f. 13. 

 Mexican Hog, Penn, 

 Pecari, Shatv. 



Hah. ■ South America : Mexico, Eed Eiver, Arkansas, Guiana, 

 Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, California {Baird). 



Notophorus torquatus had a young one in 1860, the first occasion 

 that the animal has bred in confinement in England (Sclater, P. Z. 8. 

 1860, p. 443). 



The skuUs of the three old [males?], having large canine teeth, 

 are rather larger than the other, and they have a well-marked ob- 

 long slightly sunk concavity in front of the orbits. 



One adult skuU, in the Museum, with large short thick canines, 

 has this part of the skuU, which is concave in the three other skulls 

 above' referred to, flat. 



The angle of the lower jaw in the old skull becomes much di- 

 lated, with a produced lower edge, making the skuU appear higher 

 than the skuU from an animal with all its teeth just developed, as 

 720 A. 



2. DICOTYLES. 



SkuU — side of the face in front and on the underside of the orbits 

 flattened, with a well-marked ridge on its lower edge ; orbits small, 

 incomplete. The longitudinal ridge on the cheeks bent up in an 

 arched manner in front of the orbits, and then slightly indicated 

 parallel to the line of the forehead, becoming a large concavity on 

 the cheek beneath. Teeth large (see Blainv. Osteogr. OnguUgr. 

 Sus, t. 5, figured as Sus torquatus). Tail rudimentary; caudal ver- 

 tebrae nine \Gerra/rd), 



Dicotyles, Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 45. 



