THE WHITE-LIPPED PECCARY. 
DiCOTYLES LABIATUS. Cuv. 
The present species, according to M. Sonnini, is ex- 
clusively known in Guiana by the name of Peccary, 
although that denomination is now commonly applied 
in Europe to both it and the Patira of the same country 
described in the preceding article. It is also the Tag- 
nicati of M. D'Azara, from whom and from the author 
just quoted most of our information relative to the 
habits of these animals in their native land has been 
derived. In size it is considerably larger than the 
other species, frequently measuring three feet and a 
half in length, and sometimes attaining the weight of a 
hundred pounds. In form and proportions it is thicker 
and stouter, with shorter legs, and a longer snout ; 
and the abrupt termination of that part is still more 
expanded and flattened out than that of the Collared 
Peccary. In its colour it has little of the grayish tinge 
