190 SUS-STUDIES. 



New-Guiuea not! Therefore I canuot accept Dr. C. Keller's 

 sUrteil", viz:" »Sus papuensis und Sus niger von der Liste 

 zu streiclieu" '). I subscribe Nehring's opinion: » manche 

 "Autoren nemen an, dass die wildlebenden Papua-Schweine 

 "auf Neu-Guinea nicht ursprünglich einheimisch, sonderu 

 "die nachkommen verwilderter Hausschweine seien. Diese 

 "Frage ist heute noch nicht Spruchreif; sie könnte mit 

 "Sicherheit wohl nur durch Auffindung fossiler und sub- 

 "fossiler Sus-Reste auf genannter Insel entschieden werden." 

 (Die Rassen des Sch weines, Erster Abschnitt, p. 12). 



10. Sus papuensis Lesson. 



Much belter than Lesson's figure of this Pig is that 

 given by Nehriug in »die Rassen des Schweines", drawn 

 after a nearly adult female-specimen brought over in 1885 

 by Dr. Fiusch from Neu-Guiuea to the Berlin Zoological 

 Garden and described by him in his » Samoa- fahrten." The 

 best description of the species may be that of a semi-adult 

 Waaigeou-specimen given by me in the Notes from the 

 Leyden Museum, 1891, p. 99, after Bernstein's Manuscript, 

 so that externally the nearly adult, semi-adult and young 

 animal is sufiiciently characterised. Two Morotai-specimens 

 from Dr. Bernstein's collections represent the animal in 

 fullgrown and very old condition. The bristles grow darker 

 and are black in very old age, constantly however with 

 the exception of the streaks on sides of cheeks and spot 

 under the eyes, which are dirty white to yellowish red. 

 The adult animal (dried skins!) has the enormous size of 

 at least 950 mm., Bernstein's semi-adult measured 575 mm. 

 and Finsch's nearly adult 1020 mm.! The skull oi papu- 

 ensis — as far as I am aware — never has been described 

 in details. The skull of a very adult specimen — appea- 

 rantly a male — belonging to a skin from Morotai, col- 

 lected by Dr, Bernstein, shows the following characteristics : 



1) Dr. C. Keller. Naturgeschichte dor Haustiere, 1905 (I write this Nov. 

 S. 1904), p. 228. 



Notes from the Leyden Miuseum, "Vol. XX.VI. 



