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sent stands as the Phasiochcerus Africanus of syste- 

 matists, " I shall now," says he, " describe a new 

 species of boar which is peculiar to Africa, and 

 possesses a very peculiar form ;" a form now gene- 

 rally known, which consists principally in several 

 great excrescences about the snout, and which has 

 procured for it the popular name of the marked or 

 wart-hog. It was by mere inference that he con- 

 cluded that it was the same as the boar of Mada- 

 gascar {Sus larvatus). His words are, " I scarcely 

 doubt that the African boar seen by Adanson was 

 this species, and hence we may conclude it is found 

 in the whole warmer regions of Africa, at least as 

 far as the Niger. It is probably, too, an inhabitant 

 of Madagascar, according to the testimony of Flac- 

 court ; hence I conclude I may apply to it the name 

 Aper jEthiopicus, This name is probably unfortu- 

 nate, as it would appear that the characters of that 

 species described by Ruppel, A, uEliani^ as existing 

 in that country, are sufficiently distinct."* Passing 

 by the short paper in which he maintains that the 

 opossum and ant-eaters are not confined to the New 

 World, we shall draw our account of the quadru- 

 peds mentioned in this volume to a close, by stating 

 that there is a minute description first given in this 

 work, not in the Spicilegia Zoologica^ as it is fre- 

 quently stated, of the Grim, or Antilope grimmice : 

 this is preceded by a monograph of the antelopes, 

 in which they are divided into three genera and 

 seventeen species. 



* See the Naturalist's Library, Mammalia^ vol v. », 219. 



