ARTIODAi TVI.\. 



digits are placed behind (fig. (!7( r). Phtu-m-ln, nix rrf/iiv/iicitx Cuv.. 

 Wart-hog. South Africa; Ph. sKl'miuix Liiipp. (,SV.<? (ifrii-uiinn L.). found from 

 Abyssinia to Guinea: Pun-i/x hnlujrnxx/i L.. 'I'he P>abyrussa, Moluccas 

 Dicoft/lrx. I'eccaries. D. ffir//////f/<x Cuv. : /A Inhnitmt Cuv.. America ; Potawo 

 chcerux (ifriciiinix Scliveb. (larnitiix Fr. Cuv.). South- West Africa : >'/< rm-i>j>n'ii.< 



.3-3 1-1 I" I 3-3 



Pall. (,$'. /,;/ L.), Wild I'.oar. Dentition ' .-- '' ^-P- m -f^ m - ;? . ;J / 



Is widely distributed from 

 India to Western Europe 

 and North Africa. Is the 

 ancestral stock of a great 

 number of races of our 

 domestic pig : though on 

 the other hand the pigs 

 of China. Cochin-china, 

 and Siam, and the Nea- 

 politan, Hungarian, and 

 Andalusia n pigs, the small 

 Biindtiiev pig and the Peat 

 pig from the more recent Fl , O92 ._ skull of s ,, x ,,,,,,;,/,,-. 



stone period (neolithic) of 



the Swiss lake dwellings are derived (Nathusius) from a special ancestral 

 species (>'. i/iilini.t'). which is not known with certainty in the wild state, but 

 is allied to the /S. rittatus Mull. Schl. from Java and Sumatra. 



Fain. Obesa. Of unwieldy shape, with large massive head, and bmad 

 truncated, swollen snout. Hippopotamus amphibia* L. Dentition : 



. 2-2 1-1 4-4 3-3 



/. - C. - I). III. - - Ht. r. 



2-2 1-1 ' 4-4 3-3 



H. major Cuv.. diluvium of Central and Southern Europe. 



Sub-order 2. Artiodactyla ruminantia.* With incomplete den- 

 tition (fig. 693), in 

 which the upper in- 

 cisors and canines are 

 usually not devel- 

 oped. On the other 

 hand there are eight, 

 rarely only six shovel- 

 shaped incisors in the 

 lower jaw. The 

 FiG.693.-SkullofC e wc bi -vneral form of the 



grinders affords tolerably constant characteristics. The quad- 



; Of. i;specially G. J. Sunclevall, " Mcthodische Uebersicht iilier die wiedev- 

 kauendeii Thieve." 2 Theile. 1S47. 



IMi'inp'ver. Fauna der Pfahlbauten." 



Pditimeyer. ' Versuch einer natiirlieheii Gt-schiehtc des Itindr-.." In den 

 Di-nltxrhr. drr Soh-weizer initin-furx^h. (,'rxi-llxrh.. P.d. 22 and 23. 



