FOREST-HOG 



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mediate between the bush-pigs and the wart-hogs. The tusks, although 

 very much smaller, have the characteristic curvature of those of the 

 wart-hog ; and, as in the latter, the upper front, or incisor, teeth are 

 reduced to a single pair. Of lower incisors three pairs are developed 

 in at least some instances, but the outer pair may be shed early. Bush- 

 pigs, it should be mentioned, have three pairs of these teeth in each jaw. 

 The muzzle has a very large terminal disc, and the head of the adult 

 male is distinguishable at a glance from that of a wart-hog by the 

 absence of the second pair of warts behind the tusks and the presence 





Fig. 84. — The Forest-Hog, from a boar shot by Captain Houl)lon. 



of a pair of gigantic warty excrescences below the eyes, some three 

 times the size of those of the wart-hog. These warty growths, which 

 are well shown in the photograph, recall one of the funguses which 

 commonly grow on trunks of decaying trees. There are no ear-tufts, 

 and the coat, which is jet black, is much more profuse than that of 

 a wart-hog. In size the forest-hog considerably exceeds the largest 

 bush-pig or wart-hog ; and when seen in jungle, the creature, it is 

 stated, might almost be mistaken for a small rhinoceros. 



Captain Meinertzhagen obtained his specimens from Mount Kenia 

 and from Nandi, near the Victoria Nyanza, at an elevation of about 



