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six or eight inches is bare, but the rump is clothed scantily 

 by black hair similar to that of the neck mane. The sides of 

 the body, under-parts, and legs are clothed by short, whitish 

 hair set about one-half inch apart and having scarcely any 

 perceptible color effect on the dark skin. The front of the 

 legs from the knee downward support a growth of longer, 

 denser, blackish hair, but the knees themselves are quite 

 bare and calloused from kneeling. The tail is quite naked, 

 with the exception of the tip, which is furnished by a tuft 

 of stiff, black hair. The head has a conspicuous growth of 

 white whiskers, running from below the eye to the mouth, 

 which stand out stiffly at right angles to the cheeks, owing 

 to their insertion on a narrow, shelf-like wart. The top of 

 the head, snout, and lips are clothed by a scattered growth 

 of short, black hair, while the lower part of the cheeks and 

 throat show a somewhat scantier and shorter growth of 

 whitish hair. The short, rounded ears are thinly covered 

 by black hair on the back and by long white hair on the 

 inner side. The newly born young are a uniform umber- 

 brown, but soon lose this first pelage. When half grown 

 they are quite like the adults in color and have the white 

 cheek whiskers well developed. 



The flesh measurements of a large male from the Loita 

 Plains were: head and body, 56 inches; tail, 17 inches; 

 hind foot, 11 inches; ear, s}i inches. An average female 

 measures some 12 inches less in length and i inch less in 

 length of foot than these dimensions. Males range in 

 greatest length of skull from i^}i to 17 inches and females 

 from 13 to 14 inches. The tusks average in males, in ex- 

 posed length measured on the curve, 9 inches. The long- 

 est tusk in the National Museum in a series of twenty-five 

 adults is a specimen from the Kedong Valley, near Kijabe, 

 measuring 1^/4 inches and exceeding Ward's record for 

 East Africa by i inch. Female tusks average 6 inches on 

 the curve. The longest in the National Museum is one 

 from the Loita Plains having a length of g}i inches. A 

 series of fifty specimens have been examined in the Na- 

 tional Museum from the Loita, Athi, and Kapiti Plains, 

 Kedong Valley, Uasin Gishu and Laikipia Plateaux, and 

 Taveta, British East Africa. The altitudinal range of the 

 wart-hog seldom or never exceeds eight thousand feet. It 



