MAMMALS OF THE MEXICAN BOUNDAEY. 169 



with luy coinriuk', who also \-iiinly Iriod to either Khoot or overtalvc i(. 

 1 visited the spot the next day, but saw no peccaries. We next found 

 abundant signs of them on the Nariz Mountains to the westward. 

 When questioning Mexicans at Gila City, Arizona, as to whether 

 there were peccaries in that vicinity, one of tlie men told me he had 

 killed them on a hill near where the Boundary Line reaches the Colo- 

 rado River ; but we saw none on the Colorado or west of Santo Do- 

 mingo, Sonora, where one had been seen in December, 1893. Sefior 

 Don Cypriano Ortego saw a peccary at one of his ranches, 3 miles 

 south of Santo Domingo, about January 5, 1.894. He informed me of 

 their abundance in a high range northeast of Sonoyta. 



Maj. John G. Bourke's instructive book, entitled On the Border 

 wi+h Crook, contains several allusions to the peccary as an inhabit- 

 ant of Arizona and Sonora. General Crook found them in various 

 parts of southern Arizona, as well as at the type locality in Sonora, 

 for Bourke observes (p. 473) : 



The next morning [January, 1886] we struck out southeast [from San Ber- 

 nardino Springs, Monument No. 77] across a country full of little hills of drift 

 and conglomerate, passing the canyons of the Guadalupe and the Bonlto, the 

 former dry, the latter flowing water. A drove of the wild hogs (peccaries or 

 musk hogs, called " .labali " by the Mexicans) ran across the path ; instantly the 

 scouts took after them at a full run, " Ka-e-ten-na " shooting one through the 

 head while his horse was going at full speed, and the others securing four or 

 five more ; they were not eaten. 



Again Bourke writes {p. 137) : 



Our line of travel lay due east 110 miles to old Fort Bowie, thence north 

 through the mountains to Camp Apache, thence across an unmapped region 

 over and at the base of the great Mogollon Range to Camp Verde and Prescott, 

 on the west. In all, some 675 miles were traveled. Our commanding general 

 [George Crook] showed himself to be .i man who took the deepest interest in 

 everything we had to tell, whether it was of peccaries chased off on one side of 

 the road, etc. 



From General Crook I also ascertained that they were inhabitants 

 of the whole San Pedro Valley, Arizona and Sonora. 



Family CERVID^." 



SEER. 



Frontal appendages, when present, in the form of antleis. First 

 molar, at least, in both jaws brachydont. Two orifices to the lach- 

 rymal duct, situated on or inside the rim of the orbit. An antorbital 



a In the year 1856 a drove of 75 Arabian camels (Cnmehis drom,ecla.rius) was 

 procured from Smyrna by the United States Government and distributed over 

 Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. During the civil war the whole of these 

 animals fell into the hands of the Confederates, and were used for carrying 

 the mails, some of them making .iourneys of upward of 120 miles in a day, At 



