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men have thus far succeeded in bagging the forest hog, most 

 of the specimens recorded having been obtained from the 

 Wandorobo bushmen, who catch them occasionally in their 

 game pits. Recently the American Museum of Natural 

 History of New York has received a fine adult pair from an 

 American hunter, Alfred J. Klein, who shot the specimens 

 himself near Escarpment Station, in the dense forest cloth- 

 ing the summit of the Kikuyu Escarpment. The National 

 Museum collection contains two complete specimens of 

 adult boars, one a gift to Colonel Roosevelt from Lord Dela- 

 mere, and the other obtained by purchase from a farmer 

 resident at Lake Naivasha. 



The coloration of these specimens is a uniform black 

 with the exception of some inconspicuous patches of pale- 

 buffy or whitish hair on the sides of the snout, near the angle 

 of the mouth, on the cheeks below the wart, on the inner 

 side of the ears, and on the belly. The hair covering is 

 quite uniform, without any tendency toward a dorsal mane, 

 but rather scanty, the skin showing through the coat. 

 Upon the cheeks below the wart are a row of horizontally 

 directed whiskers, as in the wart-hog, but they are much less 

 conspicuous, not being differentiated by lighter color, but 

 having a few whitish hairs mixed with the black ones. A 

 mounted specimen of the Cameroons race, rimator, in the 

 National Museum is quite identical in coloration with the 

 specimens from British East Africa, the whitish areas on 

 the sides of the head agreeing in area and inconspicuousness. 

 No sexual differences are apparent among forest hogs, but 

 the wart below the eye is smaller in the females. The color 

 of the newly born young is not known, but it is doubtless 

 a uniform deep-brown, as in the young of the closely allied 

 wart-hog. No flesh measurements of any specimens are re- 

 corded in the literature, the known specimens consisting 

 chiefly of skulls or skins obtained from natives. The skin of 

 the specimen received from Lord Delamere, which is the larger 

 of the two in the National Museum, measures in a tanned 

 condition: head and body, 59 inches; tail, 13 inches; hind 

 foot, 10 inches; ear, 4)4 inches. The skull of this specimen, 

 which is fully adult and shows wear on the last molar tooth 

 has a length of 16^ inches, which is slightly less than the 

 largest wart-hog skull from East Africa. A specimen from 



