sus. 563 



Colour. Black, tips of some dorsal bristles brownish grey. 

 Dimensions. Height at shoulder about 20 inches ; basal length 

 of an adult male skull 9, zygomatic breadth 4'5. 

 Distribution. Forests of the Andaman Islands. 



37$. Sus salvanius. The pigmy Hog. 



Porcula salvania, Hodgson, J. A. S. B. xvi, pp. 423, 593, pis. xii 

 xiii ; xvii, pt. 2, p. 480, pi. xxvii ; Horsfield, P. Z. 8. 1853, p. 192, 

 pi. xxxvii ; Jerdon, Mam. p. 244 ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 546, 

 pi. xxxvii ; 1883, p. 388, pi. xliii, juv. ; W. Sclater, Cat. p. 195 



Sus salvanius, Garson, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 413. 

 Sano banel, Nepal. 



No distinct crest, but hair on hind neck and middle of back 

 rather longer. Ears small, naked. Tail very short. No woolly 

 underfur. Three pairs of mammae. The last molar, either upper 

 or lower, is considerably shorter than the two preceding molars 

 together. 



Colour. Brown or blackish brown, black and brown bristly hairs 

 being mixed. The young are dark brown, with longitudinal rufous 

 bands, above and on the sides, white beneath. 



Dimensions. An old male measured by Hodgson was 26 inches 

 from snout to rump, 11-25 high at the shoulder, ear 275, tail 1'25. 

 "Weight 17 lb. The skull measures 5-9 in basal length, and 3-2 in 

 zygomatic breadth. 



Distribution. The forest at the base of the Himalayas in Nepal, 

 Sikhim and Bhutan. 



Habits. Apparently very similar to those of S. cristatus. The 

 pigmy hog is chiefly found in high grass-jungle, and is said to live 

 in herds of from 5 to 20, the adult boars keeping with the females. 

 These small pigs are very rarely seen, as, like other swine, they 

 only leave the forest at night. 



The Hippopotamidce,now confined to Africa, were, in Pliocene and 

 Pleistocene times, represented in India by several species, some of 

 which probably were contemporaries of man, a worked flint having 

 been found in the Nerbudda gravels that contain bones of Hippo- 

 potamus. Falconer thought that these animals might have lived 

 until the Arian immigration, and that they might have been the 

 Jald-hasti, or water-elephant, of Sanscrit writers, but it appears 

 more probable that the animal thus named was Platanista. 



