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"between eye aud muzzle there are ttoo well- developed pro- 

 '-Huherances ^), 30 mm. in length and 20 mm. in breadth, 

 "densely covered with stiff autrorse bristles." 



Mr. Miller repeatedly compares his species with Sus 

 longirostris. But what is longirostris ? 



Professor Dr. A. Nehring was struck by die langgestreckte 

 schmale Form des ganzen Schnauzenthcils of a Pig-skull, 

 collected with other Pig-skulls by Mr. Grabowsky in South- 

 eastern Borneo; this skull had been said by Grabowsky 

 to be a Sus iferrucosus-sknW ; according to Prof Nehring 

 however it differs in so many points from that species, 

 that he described it as belonging to a specimen of an 

 undescribed species, which he called Sus longirostris (Zool. 

 Anzeiger, 1885, p. 347). One will be surprised that Nehring 

 did not compare the mentioned skull with another skull 

 from Grabowsky's collection from the very locality ; this 

 skull with skeleton once belonged, according to Nehring 

 (1. c. p. 347), to a Sus 6ar6aiws-specimen, the skull had the 

 enormous size of 554 mm.! Why could Nehriug's supposed 

 new species not be a Sus barbatus? Had he compared 

 these two skulls, perhaps many lines would not have been 

 written and several papers had not been published ! Gra- 

 bowsky said that the Pig »dunkel behaart war, ahnlich 

 "unserem europaischen Wildschweine und zwei warzen- 

 ^^ahnliche ') Hautfalten im Gesicht hatte." 



In Vol. II of the "Abhandl. und Ber. d. Kön. Zool. und 

 Anthr.-Ethu. Museums zu Dresden", 1888/89, there is a 

 paper by Dr. Nehring »\J eher Siis celebensis und Verwandte" ; 

 the author now paralleled his longirostris-skuW with barbatus- 

 skulls aud it seems that he somewhat doubted of the 

 specific value of his longirostris; we may conclude this 

 from the following passus, p. 18: »0b die Griinde, welche 

 ''mich zur Aufstellung dieser neuen Art veranlasst haben 

 "auf die Dauer als stichhaltig erweiseu werden, mussen 

 "zuküuftige Untersuchungen lehren. ïïerr Dr. Jentiuk, mit 



1) I italioize. 



Notes from tlie Ijeyden Miuseum, \'ol. XXVI. 



