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habe mir leider keinen Schadel des Thieres verschaffen 

 köonen. 



Habitat. Sumatra and Java; probably all the islands 

 westward Sumatra (von Rosenberg, der Malayische Archi- 

 pel), Banka (S. Muller, Verhandelingen) and Flores (Max 

 Weber, Zoologische Ergebnisse, 1890). 



Sus verrucosus S. Muller. 



a. Adult male, stuffed, one of the types of the spe- 

 cies, figured in the » Verhandelingen", pi. 28. Java, 

 Parang. Collected by Boie and Macklot. 



h. Adult specimen , stuffed , one of the types. Java. 

 Collected by Diard, 1830. 



c. Half grown female , stuffed , one of the types. Java. 

 Collected by S. Muller, 1833. 



d. Young specimen , stuffed , one of the types. Java. 

 Collected by van Raalte. 



e. Young male, stuffed. Java. Died in the Rotter- 

 dam Zoological Garden, 1880. 



ƒ. Very young specimen, stuffed, one of the types. 

 Java, Parang. Collected by Boie and Macklot. 

 g ih. Skins of young male- and female-specimens, Java. 

 From the Amsterdam Zoological Garden, 1861 and 

 1868. 

 (See Jentink, Catalogue osteologique , 1887). One ske- 

 leton , Java ; ten skulls , Java. 



(See S. Muller, Verhandelingen). This Pig is called by 

 the Sundanese with the Malay name Bahi. It generally 

 is less frequent than the Banen (Sus vittatus) , lives more 

 in the high alang-alang , ia thick grown dales and other 

 distant wild localities in the lower parts of the moun- 

 tains, and seldom is to be met with in troops but gene- 

 rally alone or two or three together. Its nature is wilder 

 and more courageous, and its strong canines are very 

 dangerous to the dogs. To solitary plantations it is not 

 less disadvantageous than the Banen ^ and therefore the 



Notes from the Leyden M.useiam, Vol. XIII. 



