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on the throat, and the hairs of the throat and chest are reversed. 

 The tail is scantily covered with short hairs, and the apex com- 

 pressed with long lateral bristles like those of the elephant, 

 arranged like the rings of an arrow. The yonng is more hairy, 

 of a tawny or fulvous color 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." 



He has, however, rather under-estimated the size of the wild 

 hog of India. 



From the records of the Nagpore hunt of which I am at pre- 

 sent a member, I find, that of the last twenty-five boars speared, 

 seventeen measured 31 inches and more, in height at the shoulder ; 

 of these seventeen, one was 35^, one 34, three were 34, and 

 five, 33 and 33 inches. The largest boar on the books of the 

 present hunt up to this date, (March 1 870) measured 36 inches at 

 the shoulder, 76 in length, tail included ; 54 in girth, the next in 

 size were 35 and 35^ inches in height. 



Of the last twenty-five sows, for here we are sometimes obliged 

 to hunt them, fourteen measured 30 inches, and more, at the 

 shoulder, of these one was 33, these are also, but not included in 

 the above list, two sows of 32 and two of 31 inches each. The 

 hunt rule for measuring pigs is from withers to heel (not toe) much 

 in the way a horse is measured, and the same sort of standard is 

 used with very few exceptions, such as when a pig is killed too 

 late in the evening, or too far from fhe tents to be worth bringing 

 in ; the height is then taken on a couple cf spear shafts which are 

 afterwards measured. 



The following are the dimensions of a boar speared at Seroor, 

 in the Wurdah district, on the 12th of March 70. 



Height, 34^ inches ; length, taken in profile from nose to root of 

 tail, 5 feet and half an inch, and along the back, 8 feet 2 inches, 

 length of tail not including long bristles at end, 1 1 J inches, girth, 

 4 feet 6 inches, tusks 7 j inches. 



Jerdon does not over-estimate the speed and courage of a wild 

 hog : no one can form a correct idea of the former who has no^ 



