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Potamochoerus, Gray, Ann. ^- Muq. N. II. xv. p. 0(3 ; P. '/,. S. 18(38, 

 p. 34 ; Sc/ater, P. Z. S. 18G0, p. 301 ; Fitz. Sitz. Akad. d. Wiss. 18(54, 

 p. 19. 



Phascochcerus, sp., Jardine. 



Phacoclicerus, sp., Lesson in Tabl. R. A. 1841, p. 162. 



1. PotamochcErus africanus. (Bosch Vark.) B.M, 



Ears densely hairy ; internally white, with black edge and tuft. 

 Fur black. Head and back whitish or yellowish ; foi'ehead and back 

 black-varied ; large spot beneath the eyes black. 



ISlidl. — Jlale, the lateral tubercular ridge prominent, and elevated 

 above the upper surface of the nose ; lateral process on the base of 

 the sheath of the upper canine broad, compressed, reaching to the 

 level of the upper surface of the nose. Female with transverse ridge 

 at the base of the sheath of the iipper canine, 



African Wild Boar, Daniel, African Scenery, t. 22. 



Sus africanus, Schreb. SitiKjeth. i. p. 327 ; P. Z. S. 1852, p. 131 ; 



Blainv. in Lain: et Bazin, Anat. Phys. t. 11. £ 9 (teetli) ; Blainv. 



Osfeof/r. t. 8. f . 1 ; Gray, Griffith's A. K. t. ; Beichenb. Natiirq. d. 



Pach'yd. t. 33. £ 129. 

 .Sus larvatus, F. Cur. Mem. Mus. vii. p. 447, t. 22; A. Smith, S. A. 



Quart. Joui-n. p. 90 ; Blainv. Osteoyr. Onyuliyr. t. (.skull). 

 Sus koiropotamus. Desmoid. Diet. Class. H. N. vii. t. 1 ; P. Z. S. 

 ^ 18o2, p. 131. 



Koiropotamus africanus. Gray, List Mamm. B. M. p. IBo. 

 Choiropotamus larvatus, Gray, Ann. ^ May. N. H. 1852. 

 Phacoclicerus koiropotamus. Lesson, N. Tab. B. A. p. 162, 1841. 

 Sus koiropotamus, Desmoulins, Diet. Class. H. N. t. 7, 2 ■ 

 Sus choiropotamus, Beichenb. Natnry. d. Pachyd. t. 33. £ 48. 

 Potamochcerus larvatus, Gray, Ann. i!) May. N. H. xv. p. 60 ; Fitz. 



Sitz. Akad. d. IFissen. 1864, p. 19. 

 Potamochcerus africanus. Gray, P. Z. S. 1852, p. 131, 1858, p. 58, 



1800, p. 443, 18(58, p. 34; Gerrard, Cat. Bones B. 3L p. 279; Kirk, 



P. Z. S. 1804, p. 050. 

 Phascochcerus larvatus, Jardine, Nat. Libr. p. 232, t. 28. 

 Sauglier a masque, Syanzin, Mem. Strasb. iii. p. 1, t. 1. 



Female, skull with only a ridge across the base of the sheath of 

 tlie upper canines. — P. Z. S. 1808, p. 35. 



Sus capensis, Gray, Gerrard, Cat. of Bones B. M. p. 277 (skull). 



/lah. South Africa, called "Bosch Yark ;" Central Africa, Zam- 

 besi delta, called " Njulvi " (Kirk). 



" Scarcely any two s])ccimcns of this species exhibit the same 

 colour ; some are brownish black variegated with white, and others 

 are almost entirely of a liglit reddish-brown or rufous tint without 

 the white variations ; indeed such are the varieties tliat it is scarcely 

 possible to say what are the most prevailing colours." — A. Smith, 

 S. A. Quart. Jonrn. p. 90. 



1. In the British iluscum there is a skeleton (1364 6) of a spe- 

 cimen that lived several years in the Zoological Gardens. In the 

 skull the malar process is very broad, reaching nearly to the level of 



