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THE BAB1ROUSSA. 



Sus babiroussa.* LINNAUS. 

 PLATE XXIII. 



The Babiroussa of authors. Sus babiroussa, Linn. &c , 



Le Babiroussa, Fred. Cuv. Hist, des Mammiffi 



THIS rather handsome animal is very remark- 

 able for the great development of the tusks, which 

 project from both jaws, and form a circular turn 

 upon each side of the nose. It is from these tusks, 

 very conspicuous in the wild animal, that, it is 

 conjectured, the name of Babiroussa, literally Hog- 

 deer, has been applied to it, and not from any simi- 

 larity in the make of the animal to the form of a 

 Deer, for, with the exception of the limbs being 

 more slender, there is no other similitude whatever. 

 Fred. Cuvier says, that the upper tusks pierce 

 the skin of the muzzle before coming upwards ; 

 they form nearly a circle, and often touch the 

 skin of the animal a second time. Living, or 

 entire specimens, have seldom, till lately, reached 

 Europe, and we have used the figures of F. Cuvier, 



