278 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



host of other long-known species, remain quite unrepre- 

 sented in museum collections. 



Hylochoerus is now known to be distributed from the for- 

 ested highlands of British East Africa westward through- 

 out the Congo watershed, to within close proximity of the 

 Atlantic coast of Africa. The forest hog has a great alti- 

 tudinal range, being distributed throughout the forest area 

 quite to its upper limits. In addition to the type species, 

 minertzhageniy three others have been described, all within 

 the Congo basin, but none of these really show specific dis- 

 tinctions, but are based on individual differences in the 

 skull structure. They represent a single Congo race, with- 

 out doubt, which is separable from the East African race 

 only by slight relative differences in dentition, as pointed 

 out by Thomas for the Cameroons race, rimator. 



East African Forest Hog 



Hylochoerus minertzhageni 



Native Names: Nandi, tumtu; Tiriki (Kakumega forest), mbirri; Masai, 

 elguya; Kikuyu, numera. 



Hylochcerus minertzhageni Thomas, 1904, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 196. 



Range. — Forested regions of Mount Kenia, Aberdare 

 Range, Kikuyu and Mau Escarpments westward as far as 

 Mount Elgon and eastern Uganda. 



The type species of the recently discovered forest hog 

 has been named by Thomas minertzhageni, for its dis- 

 coverer. Minertzhagen, however, did not actually meet 

 the species which bears his name in a wild state, but ob- 

 tained his specimens, as he has recorded, from natives and 

 from some American missionaries resident on the borders 

 of the Kakumega forest. He refers to one of these mis- 

 sionaries as having actually shot a forest pig, and this is 

 apparently the first recorded instance of such a feat by a 

 white man. The man referred to in these remarks is with- 

 out doubt Doctor E. Blackburn, the medical officer of the 

 Friends Africa Industrial Mission, who has long been a resi- 

 dent of the mission station of Kaimosi, and through whom 

 were obtained the original skulls of the forest hog sent by 

 Minertzhagen to the British Museum. Very few white 



