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together. It is a curious circumstance that the young of all 

 the wild kinds of Pigs (so far as yet is known) present a 

 uniform coloration, being dark brown with longitudinal stripes of 

 a paler colour, a character which completely disappears after the 

 first few months. On the other hand, this peculiar marking is 

 rarely seen in domestic Pigs in any part of the world, although it 

 has been occasionally observed. It is stated by Darwin that the 

 Pigs which have run wild in Jamaica and the semiferal Pigs of New 

 Granada have resumed this aboriginal character, and produce longi- 

 tudinally striped young ; these must of course be the descendants 

 of domestic animals introduced from Europe since the Spanish 



FIG. 106. Wild Boar and Young. 



conquest, as before that time there were no true Pigs in the New 

 World. Another character by which the European domestic Pig 

 differs from any of the wild species is the concave outline of the 

 frontal region of the skull, a form still retained by the feral Pigs 

 in New Zealand. 



B. The diminutive Pig of the Nipal, Terai, and Bhutan, Sus 

 salvanius, has been separated from the rest by Hodgson under the 

 generic name of Porcula, but all the alleged distinctive characters 

 prove on more careful investigation to have little real value. Owing 

 to its retired habits and power of concealment under bushes and 

 long grass in the depths of the great Sal Forest, which is its 

 principal home, very little has been known of this curious little 

 animal, scarcely larger than a hare. The acquisition of living 



