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jELIANS' WART-HOG. 



Phascochaeres JEliani. .RUPPEL. 

 PLATE XXIV. 



Phascochaeres, jEliani, Mus. Franc. Allans' warzen- 

 schween, Ruppel, Atlas, vol. xxv. p. 61. 



AFTER having carefully compared those species 

 of animals which were sent to us by our traveller 

 from the north of Africa, we were led to consider 

 that they are always of smaller size than those 

 found in the Cape, although in other respects, 

 and characteristic features, quite the same, and 

 to be considered as identical. Keeping well 

 in mind this consideration, it was only after a 

 very careful examination that we were induced 

 to regard the Wart-Hog, which is to form the 

 object of the following description, as different 

 from the species which is found on the Cape ; 

 and we shall just give our reasons for it. 



We mention, first of all, the acute judgment 

 of Fred. Cuvier, on the dental formation of the 

 Wart Hog, in the Memoir du Mus. d'Hist. Natur. 



