456 RECORDS OF BIG GAME 
The BUSH-PIG (Potamocherus cheropotamus). 
Losch-vark, Cape Dutch. Ingulubt, Swazi and Zulu. 
The bush-pigs, or river-hogs, of Africa and Madagascar form a 
peculiar group of swine characterised by having only 42, in place of 
44, teeth, small tusks, and the presence in old boars of two pairs of 
ridge-like prominences on the sides of the face, the lower one being on 
the sheath of the tusk. The ears are surmounted with tufts of long hair. 
The various species are best distinguished by the characters of their 
skulls, colour forming an uncertain guide. The Cape bush - pig, or 
bosch-vark, in which the upper prominences on the skulls of old boars 
are convex and raised above the line of the nose, is generally grey, 
although scarcely any two specimens exhibit the same colours ; some 
being a brownish black variegated with white, and others almost 
entirely light reddish brown or rufous, without any white markings. 
In British Central Africa they are invariably reddish, and form a dis- 
tinct race, P. c. nyase. Height at shoulder about 31 inches; weight, 
35 lbs. Lower tusks average 6 to 7 inches long. 
Distribution.—South and South-East Africa. 
Length. Exposed 
Thebes eter from gum. Locality. Owner. 
34 64 o. N.E. Rhodesia ; . Hon. Walter Rothschild. 
43 Poe.. Airica |. : . FE. Vaughan Kirby. 
Height at rates 
shoulder. Weight. 
-234 35 lbs. Shiré River, British Central Dr. Percy Rendall. 
Africa 
— Owner's measurements. 
The RED RIVER-HOG (Potamocherus porcus). 
In this species the prominences on the skulls of adult boars are 
flat-topped, and do not reach above the line of the nose; the colour is 
always some shade of rufous, either shining brownish red with a tinge 
of yellow, or dark reddish yellow with black on the forehead, ears, and 
limbs, and the mane of the back, part of the margins of the ears, the 
tips of the long tufts of hairs with which they are surmounted, and 
streaks above and below the eyes white. 
Distribution.—West Africa. 
