THICK-SKINNED BEASTS, 67 



1387 a. Skeleton ; very old animal. 

 Domestic. Japan. Bartlett, 



1387 h. Skull ; young. 

 Domestic. 



1387 c. Skeleton ; adult male. 

 Domestic. Zool. Gardens. 



Tribel3. BABIEUSSINA, Gratj, Cat. Carniv. <&c. p. 348; Ann, S 



Mag. Nat. Hist. 1873. 



Ears rounded, not pencilled at the end. Cutting-teeth ^r— 7i» the 



6 — 6 



front grinders separated from the upper canines by a long 

 diastema. The upper and lower canines of the male much elon- 

 gated and recurved. The sheath of the upper canines elongate, 

 arising from the outer side of the margin of the upper jaw, 

 closely apphed to but separated fi'om the side of the nose, without 

 any or only a very sHght indication of a cross ridge. Canines 

 not developed in the females, and their usual situation indicated 

 by a sharp-edged ridge just above the lower margin of the upper 

 jaw in front of the grinders. The males have a deep cavity on 

 each side of the roof of the hinder upper part of the inner 

 nostrils : this conca\aty is absent in the females, where this part 

 • is only shghtly concave. I cannot find any exit fi'om these pits, 

 which are very deep. The bullae of the ears are oblong and 

 elongate. No such conca^dty ia the back of the nasal canity of 

 any of the pigs that I have examined, but there is a deep pit on 

 each side of the centre of the hinder part of the nasal cavity in 

 the PhacocliceriLSj which is small in the young and larger in the 

 more adult skulls. In the adult skulls there is a very deep 

 concavity on each side of the roof of the inner nostrils, in front 

 of these pits which are separated from each other by a thin erect 

 "longitudmal plate. These concavities are scarcely perceptible in 

 the skulls of the very young animals. The bullae of the ears of 

 the skulls of the very young Phacochoeriis are large, nearly 

 hemispherical, and very prominent, but in the adult skulls they 

 are small and scarcely separated from the rest of the skull. 



8. BABIRUSSA, Gray, Cat. Carniv. dc. p. 349 ; Ann. <& Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. 1873, p. 



Intermaxillary bones moderate, scarcely produced behind. Canines 

 of the males elongate, convex at the sides. The lower ones rounded, 

 scarcely keeled in front, in the females wanting in the upper jaw, only 

 short conical and shghtly recurved in the lower jaw. 



1. Babirussa alfurus. Gray, Cat. Carniv. dc. p. 349. 

 Sus babirussa, Blainv. Osteog. t. ii. (skeleton ?) & v. (skull and 

 teeth). 



718 V. Animal, stuffed ; male. 

 718 V. Skeleton of " v." 

 Celebes. Zool. Soc. 71, 5, 19, 7, 



