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It is thus the Bush Pig with a rather broad parietal region 

 in Cape and Natal which ought to retain this Desmoulins' 

 specific name and the more northern race in Portug. East 

 Africa, Mashonaland etc. should be in need of a subspecific 

 name which may be proposed to be: 



Potamochcerus cliceropotamus maschoiia. 



Gray named a female skull of a Bush Pig from Damara 

 land »Sus capensis» (Cat. of Bones B. M. p. 277) this is, 

 however, a nomen nudum, and as no other specimen is known 

 from that country it cannot be said if any different race 

 of Bush Pigs lives there or not. 



With regard to the colouration of the P. choeropotamns 

 it is difficult to use the descriptions found in the literature 

 as they are rather indiscriminately taken from members of 

 different geographic races and there is also no doubt a great 

 deal of individual variation. The following notes may there- 

 fore be of some interest as they refer to individuals from 

 certain localities. 



Four speoimens in the Leiden Museum from Algoa Bay, 

 thus of the broad headed southern race, are all of them 

 dark with long bristles and white tips to the strongly deve- 

 loped dorsal ciest. Three of them have the forehead påle 

 grey, in the fourth it is dark. In the three former there is 

 a larger number of yellowish brown bristles mixed with the 

 black on the sides of the body. 



The old female from Natal in the Stockholm Museum 

 has a påle grey forehead, this colour extending round the eyes, 

 a dark band between the eyes, grey snout, dark brown checks 

 with whitish whiskers, and black ears. The dorsal crest is 

 w»'ll developed, black with white tips. The back is mixed 

 grey and blackish, shoulders, flanks, hams, legs, feet and 

 lower side black. 



The southern River Högs are thus dark as far as the 

 present material is concerned. 



The following notes show the colour of specimens from 



successivement dans le pays des Hottentots le 11 novenibre 1818, puis dans 

 les pro\'inces de Berg-Riviére, le 5 jaillet 1819, et enfin dans la Cafrerie le 

 2 novembre de la méme année» . 



