Sus verrucosus, MiiU. & ScIiJeg., and Allies. 525 



ject * it appears that he was partly influenced by the views 

 expressed by Lydekker ; but from what he says in the 

 passage quoted, it can be seen that on the whole our views 

 are not so very different. In the present instance we have 

 especially to deal with the question, whether it be more con- 

 venient to rank the Celebes Wild Hog as a species distinct 

 from the Javan S. verrucosus^ or to call it merely a variety of 

 the latter. The former course is followed by Nehring, whilst 

 I advocated the latter. I would see no difficulty in adopting, 

 for convenience' sake, Nehring's mode of naming, if there 

 were no other but the two forms just mentioned f ; but there 

 are others, which 1 am going to discuss ; so that my answer 

 to Prof. Xehring is contained in the following pages. 



Dampier, in 1686, mentions the Wild Hogs of the Isle of 

 Mindanao (Philippines) in the following words : — " The Hogs 

 are ugly Creatures ; they have all great Knobs growing over 

 their Eyes, and there are multitudes of them in the Woods. 

 They are commonly very poor, yet sweet." \ 



In a paper contributed to the Transactions of the Royal 

 Society of London, the Jesuit Missionary Camel enumerates, 

 apart from the domestic pig, three kinds of wild hogs from 

 the Philippines § : — 



" No. 25. Ababa. Aper hrevipes. 



" No. 26. Porci item species pygmcei, feri, cursu velocissimi. 



"No. 27. Bayong s. Pagil. Aper montanus. 



" No. 28. Babuy. Sus domestica." 



Two of the above native names are mentioned also by E. v. 

 Martens, who writes as follows respecting the Wild Boars of 

 the Philippines || : "Wildes Schwein,jaya^j der Spanier, haboy 

 damo der Tagalen, an anderen Orten pogil, hayong etc. 



* A. Nehring, " Ueber eine neue Art von Wildscliweinen {Siis longi- 

 rostris, Nehring) aus Siidost-Borneo " (Zool. Anzeiger, no. 197, 1885, 

 p. 352). As to Lydekker's ojnnions, see below. 



t I have myself of late (P. Z. S., March IG, 1897) proposed to maintain 

 the Madagascar "Wild Hog as a separate species, although it differs 

 not more widely from the Pvtamochoerus chceropotamus (Desmoul.) 

 (P. africanus, aiict., P. larvatus, auct.) than does " Sus celebensis"' from 

 the Javan S. verrucosus. But I would have to change my view if there 

 were found in Madagascar other forms of wild hogs, differing less from 

 P. chfp.ropotamus than those I am acquainted with. 



X William Dampier, 'A new Voyage round the World,' vol. i. 7th ed. 

 (In 'A Collection of Voyages in four Volumes.' London, 1729. Vol. i. 

 p. 320 : Isle of Mindanao anno 1G8G.) 



§ " De Quadrupedibus Philippensibus Tractat. a Reverendo Georg. 

 Jos. Camel transmissus Jacobo Petiver, Pharmacop. et Societ. Regiae 

 Soc. Londini" (Philos. Trans, vol. xxv. for the years 170G and 1707, 

 London, 1708, pp. 2200, 2201). 



II Pr. Exped. nach Ost-Asten, Zool. Theil, i. p. 19o. 



