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THE PYGMY IIOG 



Major is disposed to reduce them to four if not to fewer species. 

 He allows the widely - ranging S. scrofa, S. vittatus, and the 

 eastern Malayan S. rcrrueosus and S. harhatus. 



The Pygmy Hog of the Bhotans seems to be not entitled to 

 specific rank, certainly not to generic (in the opinion of some), 

 though it has been termed Forcida scdvania} The Wild Boar of 



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Fig. 142. — Pygmy Hog (from Nature). Sus salvania. x J. 



Europe is Sus scrofa. It w^as formerly quite abundant in this 

 country ; not merely are its remains exhumed from fens, caves 

 and peat bogs, but there is ample evidence of its continuance 

 down to a comparatively late historic period. Enactments are 

 on record as to the hunting of these animals ; there are places, 

 such as Boarstall, whose names are clearly derived from the 

 name of the animal, presumably once a native of the locality ; 

 and various documents all show the presence of the Wild Boar 



' Dr. Garson has investigated its anatomy, Proc. Zoul. t^oc. 1883, p. 413, and 

 states that its ditfereuces from Sus are " unimjiortant and few." 



