218 THE BABIROUSSA. 



sea freely, and swim to some other neighbouring 

 island. 



Our next animals exhibit a very remarkable 

 African form. There seems, without doubt, to be 

 two species, one from the south-west, the other 

 from the north of the continent. The correct 

 synonymy of the first, or oldest known, seems yet 

 somewhat confused ; and the unravelling of the 

 Sus Larvatus, the Sus Ethiopicus, and Ethiopian 

 Hog of Daniel, is left even by our latest zoolo- 

 gists in uncertainty. The eighth volume of the 

 Memoirs du Musee will contain the best account 

 of the variation of the skulls, and of the dental 

 system. Phascochaeres has been applied as a 

 generic term to this form, remarkable for the 

 large and strong tusks, and for the swollen and 

 warty appearance of the face; we have taken 

 Ruppel's figure for our first illustration, and give 

 his description entire, so little being yet known 

 regarding these formidable looking creatures. 



