pecary; 
SO nauseous, that we could neither smell nor 
collect it without extreme disgust. It seems 
only to become less fetid by drying in the air ; 
but it never assumes the agreeable odour of 
Musk, or of Civet; and naturalists would 
have made a nearer approach to truth, if they 
had compared it to that of Castoreum.'* 
Buffon adds, by way of supplement—" M. 
De la Borde remarks that, in Cayenne, there 
are two distinct species of the Pccary, or 
Mexican Hog, which never intermix. " The 
" largest kind," says he, " has white hair on 
it's chaps; and, on each side of the jaw> 
" there is a round white spot, of the size of a 
small crown -piece : the rest of the body is 
" black; and the animal weighs about one 
hundred pounds. The smaller species has 
reddish hair, and weighs not above sixty 
pounds.'* 
" It is the largest species," says BufFon, 
which is here represented : and, with regard 
to the smaller kind, the difference of colour 
and size, mentioned by M. De la Borde, must 
be only a variety produced by age, or some 
other accidental circumstance." 
M. De 
