88 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
border, gules, with a narrow edge, vert. | Above are 
two oak-branches crossed, proper, embowering an 
escallop shell, azure.’ 
In the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons 
are preserved two of the inferior incisors, and the 
right and left lower canines of a Wild Boar which, 
with a quantity of hazel nuts, were transmitted to 
John Hunter in May, 1787, by Mr. Jones, of 
Abingdon, accompanied by a letter in the following 
terms <—— 
“The inner jaw of a Wild Boar or some other ani- 
mal, and the nuts which I have taken the liberty to 
enclose in the box, were a few days since found about 
ten feet under ground by a labourer as he was dig- 
ging peat or turf. Several single tusks have been 
found, and they were all worn in the manner you 
will observe these to be at the extremities; and the 
quantity of nuts was very considerable : they seemed 
to lay in a layer of white sand between the strata of 
peat. From whence could they come ? Is it possible 
they could remain there ever since the deluge ? 
(Signed) W. JONES. 
* Abingdon, Berks, May 23nd i7ore 
“The layer of sand and nuts extended upwards of 
eighteen feet horizontally.” | 
In the same Museum, specimen No. 1079, is 
the left inferior tusk of a Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) 
* Allen, “ Hist. Co. Lincoln”’ (1830), vol. ii. p. 241. 
