. The museum of natural history, with introductory essay on the natural history of the primeval world : being a popular account of the structure, habits, and classification of the various departments of the animal kingdom, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, shells, and insects, including the insects destructive to agriculture . nija, orHallup, and is readUy distinguished from the foregoingby tlie presence of incisor teeth in both jaws, of whichthere are generally two above and six below; the bonesof the forehead being also slightly depressed in thisanimal, but convex ui the valke-vark. The h
. The museum of natural history, with introductory essay on the natural history of the primeval world : being a popular account of the structure, habits, and classification of the various departments of the animal kingdom, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, shells, and insects, including the insects destructive to agriculture . nija, orHallup, and is readUy distinguished from the foregoingby tlie presence of incisor teeth in both jaws, of whichthere are generally two above and six below; the bonesof the forehead being also slightly depressed in thisanimal, but convex ui the valke-vark. The hideexhibits an earth-brown colour, and is sparsely clothedwith bristly hairs, except along the central line of theneck and back, where they form a well-developedmane, whose individual bristles are eight or nine inchesill length. A single hair bulb commonly gives originto several bristles. The tail is nearly naked, but tuftedat the tip, as in tlie above. Both species live uponroots and bulbs which they grub up with their powerfultusks, aided by a kneehng posture to facilitate the wedgeand lever-action of the snout. THE COLLARED PECCARY {Dicotyles torqualus), orTajazou, is a small kind of liog, living in Mexico andthe southern districts of the United States, being atthe same time more extensively dispersjd over the Fig. The Collared Peccary (Dicotyles turiiiiatus). contuient of South America. The members of thisgenus difier from ordinary pigs in several interestingparticulars:—Firstly, the hind feet are tridactylous;die outer toes being absent. Secondly, the metacarpaland metatarsal boncB of the large anterior digits are closely united. Thirdly, the canine teeth, though welldeveloped, do not project from the mouth , the louis suppoit a peculiar gland wliicliexhales a fetid odour. Fifthly, there is no tail; itsplace being occupied by a slight prominence or StllDyE - -JIAMMALIA- -HYRACIDjE. IJl tubercle. Some otlier minor peculiarities exist; andCuvicr men
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