426 SUS. 
PACHYDERMATA. SUS. 
Fig. 172. 
Fossil Skull of Wild Boar from drift, Isle of Portland, 4 nat. size. 
WILD HOG. Sus Scrora. 
Cochon fossile, Cuvier, Annales du Muséum, tom. xiv. p. 39. 
Sus Scrofa fossilis, H. von Meyer, Palzologica, p. 80. 
Sus priscus, Go.pruss, Nova Acta Acad. Nat. Cuv. t. xi. pt. 2. p. 482. 
Sus Arvernensis, (?) CroizEr AND JoBERT, Ossemens Fossiles du Puy-de- 
Dome, 4to., p- 157. 
Fossil Hog, Buck1anp, Reliquiz Diluyiane, p. 59. 
Sus Scrofi, Owen, Report of British Association, 18438, p. 228. 
Wuen Cuvier communicated his memoir on the fossil 
bones of the Hog to the French Academy in 1809, he bad 
met with no specimens from formations less recent than 
the mosses or turbaries and peat-bogs, and knew not that 
any had been found in the drift associated with the bones of 
elephants. He repeats this observation in the edition of the 
‘Ossemens Fossiles’ in 1822; but in the additions to the 
last volume, published in 1825, Cuvier cites the discovery 
by M. Bourdet de la Niévre, of a fossil lower jaw of a Sus, 
on the east bank of the lake of Neufchatel, and a fragment 
