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less common throughout the whole of South America. 
They inhabit only the thickest and most extensive 
forests, and take up their dwellings in the hollows 
of trees or in burrows formed in the earth by other 
animals. They are rarely found in any considerable 
numbers in the neighbourhood of villages, but some- 
times commit great devastation among the sugar-canes, 
the maize, the manihot, and the potatoe crops. They 
are generally said to be extremely savage ; but the 
difference between the two species in this respect, as 
well as in various other particulars of manners and 
disposition, appears to be even more strongly marked 
than that which distinguishes their external form. 
The animal figured at the head of the present article, 
and to which we have applied the name of the Collared 
Peccary, is the Patira of Sonnini, and the Taytetou 
of D'Azara, who first clearly established the difference 
between the two species, which had previously been 
confounded together. It is smaller than the other, 
seldom measuring fully three feet in length, and rarely 
weighing more than fifty pounds. Its general colour 
is a yellowish gray, resulting from the manner in which 
the bristles are marked by alternate rings of grayish 
straw-colour and black. A row of long black bristles 
extends backwards from between the ears, forming a 
somewhat erectile mane on the back of the neck, and 
becoming gradually longer as they approach the tail. 
The face is more grizzled with yellow than any other 
part, with the exception of a narrow oblique line of 
yellow-pointed hairs, which passes from behind the 
shoulders to the fore part of the neck, and from which 
the specific name of the animal is derived. The colour 
of the legs, as well as of the hoofs which envelope 
the extremities of the toes, is nearly black. The 
head is extremely long, the profile forming almost a 
straight line from between the ears to the extremity 
