Abstract
In the course of a biological reconnaissance of the Mexican state of Guerrero now under way in cooperation with the Mexican Department of Game, several forms that appear to be new to science have been collected by our field parties. One of them is a four-toed anteater, Tamandua tetradactyla, which heretofore has not been recorded from western Mexico north of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Two of the specimens we have are females, as judged by the presence of pectoral mammae. These specimens were shot at night by a local hunter in a deep canyon supporting vegetation with tropical affinities east of the village of Acahuizotla, about 35 kilometers south of Chilpancingo, on the Pacific slope of the Sierra Madre del Sur. The third, a skin only, was taken a few years ago near Chapalapa and partially mounted by a local hunter. This part of Mexico is a region of...
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