230 JELIANS' WART-HOG. 



Along the lower edge of the lower jaw, we per- 

 ceive a whisker of white hair curled upwards. 

 The eyes are small, with light black eye-lashes, 

 and long black eye-brow bristles, and a tuft of 

 bristles is under the eyes. The ears at the lower 

 part of the external margin are cut obliquely, and 

 the whole margin is bordered with white bristly 

 hair. The tail is almost bare, thin, and its joint 

 provided with a tuft of hair. On the fore-feet is 

 a piece of protuberant thick hard skin. Our 

 Wart Hog has been found by Ruppell, first at 

 Kordofan, and more frequently afterwards at the 

 eastern slope of Abyssinia. It frequents low 

 bushes and forests. If in quest of food, which, 

 as far as could be ascertained, merely consists of 

 roots, it creeps on its bent fore-feet, and in this 

 posture digs up the roots of plants by means of 

 its huge corner teeth. It likewise moves on in 

 this posture, by allowing its hind legs to push the 

 body forward. The natives of Massawats call it 

 Flaruja, those at Kordofan, Flalluf. They do 

 not eat its flesh, but travellers declare that its 

 taste is not unpleasant.* 



We have now reached the American form of 

 the Swine, seen in the genus Dycotehs or 

 Peccaries. They vary in the number and modi- 

 fied form of the teeth in sometimes wanting 

 * Crech. in Rupp. Atlas. 



