CHAPTER XIV. 



THE RIVER-HOGS, BABYROUSSA, AND WART- 

 HOGS. 



THE RIVER HOGS — THE PENCILLED HOG — THE BUSH HOG, OK liOSCH-VARK — EDWARDS' RIVER-HOG 

 — THE BAHVROUSSA — ITS PECULIAR TUSKS — THE WART-HOGS — HIDEOUS APPEARANCE — THE 

 AFRICAN WART-HOG, OR VLACKE VARK^ — THE WART-HOG OK .T.LIAN OR ENGAI.LO. 



WR will conclude our account of the Suidce with three genera 

 belonging to Africa and the islands of the Eastern Ocean. 

 They are all very remarkable in appearance, but as yet we 

 have almost no information respecting their modes of life while they 

 enjoy their savage freedom. They are all gregarious, all omnivorous, all 

 fond of low-lying swampy lands for their dwelling-place. 



THE RIVER-HOG. 



The River-Hogs are the handsomest specimens of the whole hog- 

 family ; they have a long face, a moderately long snout, large but narrow 

 and sharp-pointed ears, which are ornamented with a tuft of hair, and a 

 tail with a bushy tip. All the /I/rci- species are African. A marked 

 peculiarity in these creatures is a long [irotuberance between the eye 

 and nose. 



GENUS POTAMOCHOERUS. 



The Pencilled Hog, Polannh-furnis pictiis, has been known since the 

 beginning of the sixteenth century. It is much smaller than the Euro- 

 pean l)oar, i)ut attains a length of four feet, and stands nearly two feet 

 high. The hide is covered with short, soft, thit kly-placed, smooth-lying 

 bristles which grow long on the cheeks and uiidcr-jaw, forming a short 

 mane on the back of the neck, a bushv brnsii imder the eye, and a jKur 

 ol whiskers on the cheeks. The color is a reddish-yellow, or a brownish- 

 red shading off into yellow. This beautiful bright cohjr extends over the 



