284 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



Key to the Species and Races of Phacochcerus 



Incisor teeth present in both jaws and functional; warts conical 



africanus 



Postorbital portion of the skull short and narrow, one-tenth the 

 length of the skull; interorbital region concave 



africanus celiani 



Postorbital portion of the skull long and broad, one-eighth the 

 length of the skull; interorbital region flat 



africanus bufo 



Incisor teeth completely absent in the upper jaw and present in the 

 lower only as vestiges below the gums; warts knobbed 

 at the apex delamerei 



East African Wart-Hog 

 Phacochcerus africanus celiani 



Native Names: Swahili, ngili; Kavirondo, mbithi ; Abyssinian, kurkerrozv. 

 Phacochcerus celiani Cretzschmar, 1826, Riippell's "Atlas," p. 61. 



Range. — From the highlands of Abyssinia southward 

 through Uganda and British East Africa to German East 

 Africa. 



The East African wart-hog was first described from 

 specimens collected in Abyssinia in 1826 by the renowned 

 traveller Riippell. Every traveller and explorer who has 

 entered equatorial Africa from the days of Speke and Grant 

 down to the present has met with the wart-hog. The East 

 African race differs in no way, externally, from the Nile or 

 the Senegambian races, but may be distinguished by the 

 greater narrowness and shortness of that portion of the 

 skull projecting behind the orbits. The length of this pro- 

 jecting part is usually about one-tenth the whole length of 

 the skull. The wart-hog of East Africa is uniform blackish 

 in appearance, due to the dark color of the skin and the 

 scantiness of the hair covering. Along the crest of the back 

 from the nape to the middle of the back, extends a thin mane 

 of long, black hair, which hangs down on the sides in loose 

 strands. The middle part of the back for a distance of some 



