IN THE LEYDEN MUSEUM. 101 



cl. Skiu of a young specimen. Waaigeou. Collected by 

 Bernstein, March 25, 1863. 



Skull belonging to specimen c. 



In his »Malayische Archipel, 1878 , p. 362", von Rosen- 

 berg described a new species of the Pig-family under the 

 name Sus ceramensis , in the following terms: »Einfarbig 

 schwarz ohne irgend welche Zeichnung, identisch mit dem 

 auf Seram lebenden Schwein. Es findet sich auf alien Insein 

 von Seramlaut bis Tijoor" ; and 1. c. p. 322 : »Sus spec, und 

 Cervus moluccensis kommen in ungeheuer Menge vor und 

 bilden das gewöhnliche Wild fur die Alfuren auf Seram." 



Dr. Bernstein remarked in his Manuscript after having 

 given the above (page 99) mentioned description of Sus 

 papuensis from Waaigeou: »ein auderes ganz schwarz mit 

 weissliche untern Theile der Vorderfüsse" ; the individual 

 meaned herewith by Bernstein is skin d in the Leyden 

 Museum. 



Dr. Finsch (P. Z. S. L. 1886, p. 217) described a new 

 species of Pig from New Guinea as follows : » uniform blackish, 

 even when young", and he named it Stis niger. 



Now it is evident — and with the above mentioned four 

 specimens before me I am convinced of the fact — that Rosen- 

 berg's ceramensis and Finsch 's niger are names for one and 

 the same uniform black species and that therefore there 

 is reason to reject niger (Finsch, 1886) in favor of cera- 

 mensis (v. Rosenberg, 1878), notwithstanding niger is a 

 much better name than the title ceramensis , an ill chosen 

 local title for a species with a great geographical distri- 

 bution. There is, however, in the British Museum the skull 

 of a Pig from Ceram, collected by Mr. Wallace and men- 

 tioned (in Gray's Catalogue, 1869, and Hand-list, 1873) 

 under the name Sus verrucosus, var. ceramica (1869), or 

 DasycJioerus verrucosus^ var. ceramicus (1873). Now it may 

 be that it later on appears that this skull really belongs 

 to a specimen of the black Pig , and then I think it logical 

 to call it by the name ceramicus Gray or ceramensis v. 

 Rosenberg, but I think it wise — in the first place in 



JSotes from the Xjeyden Miuseiim, Vol. XIII. 



