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WART HOGS Dey 
in this country down to so late a period as the end of the 
sixteenth century. 
The African Wart Hog, genus Phacochoerus, is usually regarded 
Fig. 143.—Wart Hog. Phacochoerus aethiopicus. x 
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as the type of a distinct genus of Pigs. This animal, “ super- 
latively ugly” with its huge tusks and great protuberances upon 
the face, is chiefly to be 
distinguished from the 
genus Sus by these char- 
acters, and by the com- 
plexity of the last molar, 
which, with the tusks, 
are sometimes in aged 
animals the only teeth 
left. The complete for- 
mula is Pm} M3. There 
are two species of this 
genus, P. aethiopicus and 
P. africanus. When en- 
Fia. 144.—Head of Wart Hog. 
raged the Wart Hog is said to carry its tail directly up, and to 
present a ludicrous as well as ferocious appearance. 
The Celebesian Babyroussa, genus Babirusa, is an almost 
hairless hog with enormously upturned tusks in both jaws of the 
