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which characterizes the latter, the black hairs of the 
back and sides having only a few brownish rings, which 
are rather more thickly spread on the sides of the head 
beneath the ears. These organs are less remarkable 
than in the other species in consequence partly of 
the greater length of the mane, which advances for- 
wards between them, and is continued down the back 
towards the tail, the bristles of which it is composed 
being very thick and somewhat flattened. The whiskers 
consist of long black scattered bristles ; and a few 
others of a similar description project just above the 
eyes. The whole of the under lip, together with the 
sides of the mouth and the upper surface of the nose, 
are white. The legs and hoofs are black ; and the 
latter are long and narrow, the posterior one of the 
hinder feet almost touching the ground. The tusks 
are longer and more visible externally than in the 
Patira. In the young animal the livery is more varied, 
being in some degree striped liked that of the young 
Wild Boar of Europe ; but these stripes are lost by 
degrees as the animal advances in age, and few traces 
of them remain after the first year. 
Unlike the former species the White-lipped Peccaries 
congregate in numerous bands, sometimes amounting, 
it is said, to more than a thousand individuals of all 
ages. Thus united they frequently traverse extensive 
districts, the whole troop occupying an extent of a 
league in length, and directed in their march, if the 
accounts of the natives are to be credited, by a leader, 
who takes his station at the head of the foremost rank. 
Should they be impeded in their progress by a river, 
the chief stops for a moment, and then plunges boldly 
into the stream, and is followed by all the rest of the 
troop. The breadth of the river or the rapidity of the 
current appear to be but trifling obstacles in their way, 
