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measurements of this specimen were: head and body, 47 

 inches; tail, 16 inches; hind foot, <^% inches; ear, 7 inches. 

 Greatest skull length, \2j/i inches. These measurements, 

 compared to those of an adult boar of the East African race, 

 show less body size, greater length of tail and ears, and 

 shorter feet. The specimen here described was one of a herd 

 of fifteen met with on the broad summit of Mount Lololokui, 

 at an altitude of six thousand feet. This herd came nightly 

 to the springs to drink and were occasionally seen in the 

 daytime, the mountain being quite without human inhabi- 

 tants. The stomach of this specimen contained the remains 

 of the white, bulb-like roots of the Sansevieria plants which 

 grew abundantly in patches on the slopes of the mountain 

 and resembled closely in habit the smaller yuccas or Spanish 

 daggers of Arizona or California. 



Forest Hog 



Hylochoerus 



Hylochcerus Thomas, 1904, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 193; type H. minertzhageni. 



As recently as 1904 a remarkably distinct giant hog 

 was discovered in the forests of Mount Kenia and the 

 Nandi Escarpment by Lieutenant Minertzhagen, of the East 

 African Rifles. The specimens collected by this officer 

 consisted of two male skulls from Nandi and the imperfect 

 skin of a female from Mount Kenia. This material showed 

 the giant forest hog to difi^er widely in skull structure or 

 shape from other known pigs and to require generic sepa- 

 ration from them. Oldfield Thomas, the original describer 

 of this new genus and species of pig, has pointed out its 

 close structural resemblance to the wart-hog as well as the 

 peculiar elevated crest of the parietal part of the skull, the 

 concavity on the crown of the head and some peculiarities 

 in the teeth not possessed by any other genus of pigs. 

 The forest pig is more closely related to the wart-hog than to 

 any other genus and is not to be considered intermediate 

 between the latter and the bush pig, or Sus, as has been 

 suggested by some naturalists. It is in reality quite a 

 specialized animal, as shown by the peculiar shape of the 



