THE WII^D BOAE OF INDIA. 3 



In village jungle, round old tanks, in null, patiales, klior 

 or grass, in crops, in thorny bushes, and very often, spe- 

 cially in the hot weather, in reeds and rushes growing 

 round the edges of bils and tanks. An old solitary boar 

 is very often found under some small trees or shrub 

 right in the open. 



Unless disturbed or pressed by thirst, they very sel- 

 dom leave their cover during the day, though in very 

 cloudy or rainy weather I have seen them come out at 

 all times. 



Nocturnal, more by force of circumstance than by 

 nature, the pigs see much better in the day time. When 

 they come out at night, sad are the havocs they some- 

 times commit, not so much from the amount they eat 

 but what they destroy and tread down. Paddy and 

 grains of all sorts are welcome to them, but what they 

 delight in is rooting for bulbs and roots, and I have seen 

 in places holes fully five feet deep that had been dug by 

 pigs in search of yams. Fruits, too, they are very fond 

 of, and during the mangoe season, they are very often 

 found at night feeding on the fruits that drop down. 

 Jack fruit they are also very partial to, the low way that 

 fruit hangs greatly facilitating their feeding on them. 



They have often said that wild pigs feed on carrion 

 and filth of all sorts, but from my long experience of 

 them, I never could trace their lowering themselves to 

 such an extent, though I will relate a rather curious ex- 

 ception. It was in the beginning of May 1878, having 

 occasion to gQ out for a ride of ten miles, I got up very 



