1. sus. 329 



a. Wild Swine. The ears ei-ect, hairy. Colour of fur unifortn or inore or 

 h'fs (jrizzled. Yuumj yellow, streaked. Skntl elongate; facial line 

 draiyht ; forehead conve.v. — Gray, /. c. p. 22. 



1. SUS. 



Face conical, simple, or with two or three small warts on each 

 check. Ears ovate, haiiy. Tail moderate, tufted at the end. SkuU 

 elongate ; the forehead and upper part of nose rounded on the sides ; 

 upper part of the intermaxillary bone smooth ; nose very long, 

 tapering, convex, I'ounded and smooth on the sides above ; concavitj' 

 on the cheek deep, continued nearly to the orbit behind. Canines 

 well developed, of upper jaw recurved ; the sheath of the upper 

 canine (of the males at least) with a longitudinal ridge across the 

 U2)per part of the base. 



Hah. Europe, Asia, and the Malay Islands. 



SiLS, Linn. ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1852, p. 130, 1868, p. 22 ; Ozven., Odont. 

 p. 534, t. 140.f. 1; Fitz. Sitz. Akad. der Wiss. 1864, p. 384; F. 

 Cuv. Dent. Mamm. p. 208, t. 85. 



The head and skull lengthened absolutely, and as compared with 

 its ■vsadth, as the animal increases in age, and especially as it reaches 

 adult and old age. The nasal bones of the skuU elongated as the 

 animal increases in age. In the young they seldom extend beyond 

 a line even with the larger foramen on the side of the face ; but in 

 the adult they are generally much produced behind it (P. Z. S. 1852, 

 p. 131). 



The descriptions and the figures of the two jaws in F. Cmaer's 

 ' Dent. Mamm.' p. 20S, do not agree ; he says there are 14 grinders 

 in each jaw, and divides them into 6 false molars and 8 molars in 

 the upper, and 2 false and 6 molars in the lower ; the 2 is perhaps 

 a mistake for 8. The front lower premolar is far from the canine 

 and second premolar ; three upper and four lower premolars com- 

 pressed; the last grinder elongate, longer than broad. 



Fitzinger, in his monograph, divides the Pigs thus, according to 

 the presence or absence of warts on the face : — 



Warts none : — Sus leucomystax, S. timorensis, S. vittatus, S. har- 

 batus, S. cristatus, S. scnnaariensis. 



Warts small, under eyes : — S. scrofa. 



Warts three — one large, on the mandible, covered with long 

 bristles, and a smaU one under the eye, and the other above the 

 canines : — S. verrucosus, S. ceJehensis. 



The Pigs may be divided geographically : — Europe, S. scrofa ; 

 Asia Minor, S. Ul>;/cus ; IncHa, S. cristatus, S. andamanensis ; Africa, 

 S. scnnaariensis ; Malay Islands, ;S. verrucosus, S. celehensis, S. bar- 

 hatus, S. vittatus, S. titnorensis ; Japan and Formosa, S. leucomys- 

 tax. 



