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lection of the U. S. National Museum (No. 58986, skin and skull). 

 This specimen resembles the palest form of the peccary, from the 

 desert region bordering the Gulf of California, of which I have 

 • examined a skin obtained from the Seri Indians by Mr. William Din- 

 widdie, of the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution. From 

 him I learned that this species ranges to the Gulf of California, 

 as I had been previously told by Don Cypriano Ortego, who resides 



Fig. 5.— Tayassu angulatum sonokiense. (Cat. No. 3.5S1.5, U.S.X.M) a, .Skill, ventral view; 

 b, lower jaw, seen fro.m above. 



at Santo Domingo, Sonora, the most western point at which we found 

 peccaries on the Mexican Boundary Line. The Santa Cruz specimen 

 is gray, without red tints, nearly white below, and with the vertebral 

 line less black than usual."^ 



a Since tbe above was written a subspecies liiuiicfaUfi 

 has been described by Doctor Merriam, as follows : 



(properly hmncrale) 



TAYASSU ANGULATUS HUMERALIS Merriam. 



Type from Armeria, Colini. No. 4.524:!, 5 acl., D. S. National Museum, Bio- " 

 logical Survey Collection. February 2(1, 1802. E. W. Nelson and 10. A. 

 Golflm.Tn. Ori.sjinal No. 194."i. 



ClKiractvrs. — Similar to aiifjiilatiis, lint sides .grayer; head yollowor ; dorsal 

 black band more strongly marked, almost as sharply as in sonoiieiisif! from 

 Arizona, shoulder stripes yellowish ochraceous, broad and conspicuous, as 



