72 
HOG. 
56. Mexican 
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Quaulitla coymatl. Quapizotl. II. 876. 
aper mexicanus Hernandez an. Pecary. Wafer svqy.Dampler III* 
mex. 637. 328. iv. 48. 'Rogers voy. 345. _ j 
Hogs with navels on their backs. Des March ah yuoy. III. 312. Gum# - j 
'Purcbas’s'PUgr, III. §68. 966. la orenoqueW. 6. Bancroft Guiana. 
Tajacu.. Ptfo Brafil 98. Barrere 124. de Buffon x. 21. tab. iii. iv. ; 
France cequin . 161. • Seb. muf.l. 177. 
Tajacu, Caaigora. Marcgra<ve Javaris Rochfort Antilles I. 285. 
Brafil. 229. Gajalle chile Church - bus ecaudatus, folliculum icho- > 
bill. III. 2. rofum in dorfo 'gerens. Brijfon i 
Tajacu feu aper mexicanus mof- 77. 
chiferus. Raiifyn. quad. 77. Sus dorfo cyftifero, cauda nulla. I 
Mexican tnulfc hog. Pb.fr. abr. S. Tajacu. Lin.Jyf. 103. 
H. with four cutting teeth above, fix below •, two 
tufks in each jaw thofe in the upper jaw pointing 
down, and little apparent when the mouth is fliort; 
the others hid : length from nofe to the end of the 
rump about three feet: head not fo taper as in com¬ 
mon fwine : ears fhort and ere£t: body covered 
with bridles, dtonger than thofe of the European 
kind, and more like thofe of a hedge-hog ; they are 
dufky, furrounded with rings of whitey thofe on 
the top of the neck and back are near five inches 
long, grow fhorter on the fides • the belly almoft 
naked : from the fhoulders to the bread is a band of 
white : no tail: on the lower part of the back is a 
gland, open at the top, difeharging a foetid icho¬ 
rous liquor j this has been midakenly called a na¬ 
vel 
Inhabits the hotted parts of S. America , and 
feme of the Antilles : lives in the foreds on the 
mountains: not fond of mire or marfhy places: 
lefs fat than the comm, a hog: goes in great droves ; 
are very fierce : will fight ftoutly with the beads ©f 
' prey: 
