PoRcULA. A421 
No. 437. PORCULA SALVANIA. 
The Pigmy Hog of the Saul Forests ( Jerdon’s No. 216). 
NaTIvE NamMes.—Sano-banel, Nepalese ; Chota-suar, Hindi. 
Hapitat.—The Saul forests of the Sikim and Nepal Terai. 
DescriIpTIon.—According to Mr. Hodgson “the pigmy hog is 
about the size of a large hare, and extremely resembles both in form 
and size a young pig of the ordinary wild kind of about a month old, 
except in its dark and unstriped pelage. The likeness of the limbs and 
members to those of the common hog is so close that every purpose 
of general description of the pigmy hog is served by pointing to that 
Porcula Salvania. 
_ resemblance, desiring only that heed should be taken by the observer 
of the shorter jaws, and eye consequently placed midway between the 
snout and ear; of the much shorter tail, nude, straight, and not extend- 
ing so far as the bristles of the rump, and lastly of the smallness of the 
inner hind toe. The ears also are quite nude, and the abdominal surface 
of the neck, as well as the insides of the limbs and the belly, are nearly 
so, but the upper and lateral external parts are covered thickly with 
bristles, even longer and more abundant.than those of the wild or tame 
hog—save upon the ridge of the neck, where the common hog has more 
or less of, and generally a conspicuous mane, but the pigmy hog little or 
none ”— the colour_of the animal is a black brown, shaded vaguely 
with dirty amber or rusty red.” 
