BUSHPIG 



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ivell covered with bristly hair. The young are striped. 

 Liength 4| feet. Height about 2J feet. 



This animal ranges from Swellendam in the Cape, 

 along the eastern portions of South Africa to Northern 

 Rhodesia ; and frequents bush-covered hills or flats where 

 there is plenty of water. It feeds upon roots, bulbs, wild 



Fig. G7.- — Basbpigs. 



fruit, &c., and goes about in droves of from six to a dozen 

 individuals ; it is chiefly nocturnal in habits. In the 

 Eastern Transvaal Bushpigs are a source of much 

 annoyance to the farmers, devastating the cultivated lands 

 at night, devouring and digging up the crops. Kirby says 

 the flesh is coarse, but many hunters have told me that 

 the meat is preferable to that of the Warthog. 



Genus PHACOCHCERUS. 



The face is disfigured by two pairs of warty growths, 

 which are considerably more developed in the male than 

 in the female. Sides of the body nearly naked, being but 



