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Abnormal Lower Tusk of Wild Boar. 
The WILD BOAR (Sus scrofa). 
Several of the Asiatic species of wild swine, forming, together with 
the European wild boar, the typical group of the genus Sws, are so 
like each other that it is often a matter of difficulty to discriminate 
between them, and naturalists are not yet in accord as to the number 
of species which should be recognised. The European wild boar is 
a large coarsely-haired species, with an under coat of woolly fur, no 
warts on the face, and standing from about 33 to 36 inches at the 
shoulder. It often lacks the crest or mane of long black bristles 
running from the nape down the back in its Indian cousin S. crzstatus ; 
and the last tooth in the lower jaw is of a rather less complex structure 
than in the latter. 
A Spanish boar killed by H.R.H. the Duc d’Orléans weighed 302 lbs. 
Distribution Europe, North Africa, and South-Western 
and Central Asia. 
Tusks. 
Length on Length of 
outside curve. tusk out Locality. Owner. 
Right. Left. of gum. 
13 See aa Albania. : : : . Lord Brackley. 
-13 a) me New Zealand (introduced) . . G. W. Campbell. 
— Owner’s measurements. 
