965 



SUID.E. 



SUID^E. 



966 



Tth of fluicocharut. 

 a, last molar tooth, side Tiew. (F. Cuvicr.) 



separate root, but three or six bristles form one tuft, and have one 

 common root. The whole body, with the exception of the back, 

 appears rather bare. The head is broad along the brow, which is 

 rather depressed ; the eyes are small, and situated very high up ; 

 there is a depression below the eyes, and near the cheek is a wart, 

 which, as compared with a smaller one alongside the cheek, may be 

 called the larger wart. These warts are formed of thickened skinny 

 tissue, and they are smaller than in the species from the Cape. A 

 whisker of white hair curling upwards runs along the lower edge of 

 the lower jaw. The eyes are small, eye-lashes blackish, eye-brow 

 bristles long and black, and under the eyes is a tuft of bristles. Ears 

 cut obliquely at the lower part of the external edge, and the whole 

 margin bordered with white bristly hair. Tail nearly bare, thin, and 

 with a tuft of hair. On the fore feet a piece of thick hard pro- 

 tuberant skin. 



Wart-Hog (Phaenchana /Eliani}. (EOppcll.) 



ThU specie.* was found by M. Rupr.eU, first in Eordofan, and more 

 requently afterwards on the eastern slope of Abyssinia. It haunt* 



low bushes and forests. It creeps on its bent fore feet in quest of 

 food, and in this posture digs up the roots of plants (of which its 

 food is supposed to consist) with its enormous canine teeth. The 

 hind legs push the body forward as it moves in this posture. 



P. jEthiopicus, the Black Bark, or African Wart-Hog, differs from 

 the last in the larger size of its warts, and the more singular form of 

 its head. Some fine specimens are now living (1855) in the Gardens 

 of the Zoological Society, Regent's Park. 



Dicotyles, Cuv. Intermediate toes larger than in Sits, and touching 

 the ground. Canines of the ordinary form, not protruding from the 

 mouth. Incisors and molars resembling those of Sun. A glandular 

 opening on the loins, secreting a fetid humour. No tail. The two 

 great bones of the metacarpus and those of the metatarsus united 

 together. 



Dental Formula : Incisors, i ; Canines, ^1; Molars, t = 38. 

 6 1 1 6 6 



Teeth of Dicotyla. (F. Cuvier.) 



Of thia form, now so well known by means of our zoological 

 societies and publications, there are two species, D. lorquatus and 

 D. lalialut. 



D. torquatus, The Collared Peccary. In Hernandez we find a figure 

 and two descriptions of this species under the names of Quauhtla 

 Coymatl, Quapizotl, A per Mexicanus, by which ' Jo. Fabri Lyncei 

 Descriptio ' is headed ; and of Coyametl, or Quauhcoyametl, ' quoniam 

 cst montanus,' by Fernandez. Both notice the gland on the loins ; 

 and the latter, who repeats the Mexican names first above stated, 

 remarks that it is fierce and truculent when first taken, but mild 

 when tamed, "-et amicus domesticis, habeturque in deliciis." The 

 flesh he describes as similar to ordinary pork, but harder and not so 

 sweet, and the food of the animal as consisting of acorns, roots, " and 

 other mountain fruits," as well as of worms, earthworms, and other 

 creatures of the same sort that are bred in lacustrine, moist, and 

 marshy places. These Mexican Hogs, he adds, lay waste the culti- 

 vated fields, if they are not driven from them, go iu droves, and when 

 domesticated are fed on the same esculents as the Common Hogs. 



The Collared Peccary has been bred in a state of domestication in 

 South America and in some of the West Indian Islands ; but, not- 

 withstanding the favourable accounts given of its flesh by the author 

 whom we have last quoted, it is out of all comparison inferior to that 

 of the Common Hog, both in flavour and fatness. The comparative 

 infertility, too, of the Peccary, which only produces two young at a 

 birth, is at once a bar to its superseding the domestic pig, which is 

 equally fertile in all climates where it has been introduced. The gland, 

 too, is highly objectionable, making the animal, neat and trim ag it 



