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THE WILD BOAR. 



Sits scrofa. 



THE Wild Boar is one of the oldest forest animals in 

 Britain, and one of which we find the earliest 

 mention in history. Characteristic figures of it 

 appear on ancient British coins,* and it is one of the 

 earliest animals figured in Celtic works of art.f 

 Britons, Romans, Saxons, and Normans all hunted it 



* Evans's " British Coins," pis. vi., viii., xi., xii., and xiii. 



f " Horae Ferales," p. 185, pi. xiv. ; Montellicr, " Memoires sur les 

 Bronzes Antiques," Paris, 1865; and Stephens' "Literature of the 

 Kymry," p. 250. 



