This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...uniform in general tone. D. p. dariensis differs from D. Colombians of the Santa Marta region of Colombia, which is doubtless a form of the same group, in more buffy, less grayish coloration and in important cranial details, the rostrum being heavier and the anterior part of the jugal less extended vertically; in D. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...uniform in general tone. D. p. dariensis differs from D. Colombians of the Santa Marta region of Colombia, which is doubtless a form of the same group, in more buffy, less grayish coloration and in important cranial details, the rostrum being heavier and the anterior part of the jugal less extended vertically; in D. colombiana the jugal, more developed upward along the orbital border, approaches the lachrymal. It may be not very unlike D. variegata Tschudi, from Peru, but is very different from Tschudi's figure, and compared with an Ecuadorean specimen in the National Museum, assumed to be near D. variegata, is decidedly larger and darker colored. In the pallid coloration of the tips of the elongated hairs on the rump D. p. dariensis resembles D. callida of San Miguel Island, but the latter is a much grayer animal throughout. Among the quaint accounts of animals encountered by Lionel Wafer (1729, p. 330) in eastern Panama during the summer of 1681 is one which apparently applies to the Darien agouti. He says: "Here are Rabbits, called by our English, Indian Conies. They are as large as our Hares; But I know not that this Country has any Hares. These Rabbits have no Tails, and but little short Ears; and the Claws of their Feet are long. They lodge in the Roots of Trees, making no Burrows; and the Indians hunt them, but there is no great Plenty of them. They are very good Meat, and eat rather moister than ours." The statement in regard to burrows is, of course, erroneous. Like the other forms of the group the Darien agouti is shy and apparently mainly nocturnal in habits; but if carefully searched for it may be found abroad early in the morning or late in the evening, and occasionally during the middle of the day, -especially in wet weather. They bec...
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