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tooth. In most species the occipital crest is more nearly vertical 

 than in the skull represented in Fig. 104. 



This genus occurs at present under three principal modifications 

 or subgenera. 



A. Sus proper comprises a number of animals 

 found in a wild state throughout the greater part 

 of Europe (except where extermin- 

 ated by human agency), the north 

 of Africa, southern continental 

 Asia, and the 

 great islands of 

 the Malayan 

 archipelago, 

 Formosa, and 

 Japan. The fol- 

 lowing among 

 others have 

 been admitted 

 by many zo- 

 ologists as dis- 

 tinct species : 



>US SCrOjCl, p I0 . 103. Left lateral view of the dentition of the Boar (Sits scrofa), 

 the \Vild Boar the roots of the teeth being exposed by removing the external lamina 



of Europe, Asia ofbone ' 



Minor, and North Africa, once common throughout the British 



Isles ; S. sennaaretisis, North-East Africa ; S. cristahts, India ; S. 



FIG. 104. Left lateral view of the skull of Sits longirostris. } natural size. (From Nehring.) 



vittatus, Java, Borneo, Amboyna, Batchian ;> S. papuensis, New 

 Guinea ; S. timorensis, Timor and Eotti ; S. andamanensis, Anda- 



