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Most of the animals of this family (unlike most of the rachydermata 

 and ruminants) ai'e very prolific. They are found in the warm and 

 temperate portions of both continents. 



Gen. Sus, Linnaeus. 



Char. — Incisors _ or — ; the lower ones procumbent or slanting 

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forwards ; canines large in the males, exserted, directed upwards ; molars 

 six or seven on each side in both jaws, tuberculate ; all the feet with 

 4 toes, which are enclosed in separate hoofs. 



215. Sus indicus. 



ScHiNZ. — S. cristatus, Wagner. — S. scropha, Linn^us. — Blyth, Cat. 

 p. 139. — Elliot, Cat. 49. — aS'. vittatus, Schlegel. — Sdr or Sdwar, H. ; 

 sometimes Bdra jauwar, or Bad jdnwar, H., i. e., the bad or unclean 

 animal. — Dilkar, Mahr. — Handi, Mikka, and Jewadi, Can. — Pandi, Tel. 

 — Faddi, of Gonds and Mharis. — A7s of Bhagalpore hill tribes. 



The Indian Wild Boar. 



Descr. — Head longer and more pointed than in the European boar ; 

 the plane of the forehead straight and not concave ; ears small aud 

 })ointed ; tail more tufted ; the malar beard well marked. 



Length of a tolerably fine boar, 5 feet to root of tail, which is 1 foot. 

 Stands a little over 30 inches high at the shoulder. 



" The colour of the adult," says Mr. Blyth, " is brownish-black, scantily 

 covered with black hairs. Besides the black recumbent mane of the 

 occiput and back, and the whiskers and the bristles above and below the 

 eyes, there is a bundle of long black bi'istles on the throat, and the hairs 

 of the throat and chest are reversed. The tail is scantily covered with 

 short hairs, and the apex compressed, with long lateral bristles like those 

 of the elephant, arranged like the rings of an arrow. The young is more 

 hairy, of a tawny or fulvous colour and striped with dark brown. The 

 hairs of the throat, chest, abdomen, and elbows (in the two latter places 

 very long) are black on the basal and white at the apical half." 



Mr. Blyth, in his Catalogue, has given the Indian boar only as a variety of 

 the common wild boar of Europe, but he allows it to be a well-marked race, 



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