fai 
THE WILD BOAR. 
Sus scrofa. 
THE Wild Boar is one of the oldest forest animals in 
Britain, and one of which we find the earliest 
mention in history. Characteristic figures of it 
appear on ancient British coins,* and it is one of the 
earlest animals figured in Celtic works of art.t 
Britons, Romans, Saxons, and Normans ail hunted it 
* Hvans’s “ British Coins,” pls. vi., vill., xi., xii., and xiii. 
+ “ Hore Ferales,”’ p. 185, pl. xiv.; Montellier, “ Mémoires sur les 
Bronzes Antiques,” Paris, 1865; and Stephens’ “Literature of the 
Kymry,” p. 250. 
