420 MAMMALIA OF INDIA. 
seen following the mother at a round pace when not more than a week 
or ten days old.” The fields of wrhur or ruhur dal (Cajanus Indicus) 
also afford good shelter to pigs. ‘They feed chiefly at night, and in 
Central India numbers are shot by native shikaries in moonlight nights 
over water and favourite crops or in particular runs. Many castes of 
Hindus, who would turn with abhorrence from the village pig, will not 
scruple to eat the flesh of the wild boar. On the whole it is probably 
a cleaner feeder, but it will not hesitate to devour carrion if it should 
come across a dead animal in its wanderings. 
No. 435. Sus ANDAMANENSIS. 
The Andaman Island Pig. 
Hapirat.—Andaman islands ; Nicobars (?) 
DEsCRIPTION.—Much smaller than the last. ‘ The concavity of the 
cheeks in front of the orbit deeply concave.” ‘Tail short, a mere tubercle 
in fact ; the body well clad with somewhat shaggy black hair, probably 
allied to Sus Papuensts. 
Dr. Gray was of opinion (see his article on the Suzde, ‘ P. Z. S.’ 1868) 
that the skull of this species is more allied to the Badirussa than any 
others of the pigs, the front of the canines being rather more produced 
than in other species, but not nearly so much so as in Ladirussa, 
No. 436. Sus MOUPINENSIS. 
HapitatT.—Thibet. 
A description of this, which I have not by me at present, will be found 
in Professor Milne Edwards’s ‘ Recherches sur les Mammiferes,’ p. 377. 
GENUS PORCULA. 
Head conical, moderate ; ears small, erect, hairy ; cheeks without any 
tubercles ; tail very short, rudimentary ; cutting teeth s the two upper 
front largest, the lateral lower small; intermaxillary moderate, not pro- 
duced ; canines small, scarcely elevated above the other teeth, the upper 
one rather spread out, but not reflexed; premolars, 44+ (Gray) ; 
molars, as ; the fourth toe on all the feet small and unequal. Jerdon 
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observes: ‘‘ This genus, it will ‘be remarked, makes an approach to the 
American peccaries in the non-excerted canines, the short tail, and the 
small fourth toe.” Hodgson’s dental formula shows one premolar less, 
: 6 I—1 6—6 
viz. iP Ure ee ae 
beet 6’ 1—1’ 6—6 
