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THE WHITE LIPPED PECCARY. 
Dycoteles labiatus. — Cuvier. 
PLATE XXVII. 
Taquicati Azara — Dicoteles labiatus, Cuv La Tojacu, 
Fred. Cuvier — The White Lipped Peccary, Bermet, 
Gardens of Zool. Soc. i. p. 60. 
This species is considerably larger than the 
last, but is at once distinguished from it by its 
darker colour, and the conspicuous white margins 
of the lips. The hairs on the body are black, 
with a few brownish rings, which are most con- 
spicuous about the head, and thence modify the 
tint. The whole of the under lip, the sides of the 
mouth and nose, are white, whence the name ; and 
the mane and hair about the head are so long as 
nearly to conceal the ears. In the young animal 
Mr Bennet mentions, the skin is more varied, 
being in some degree striped like 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 
