464 ^ETHIOPIAN HOG. 



Pliny, and is said by the former to have been 

 most common in Illyria and Ptuonia. 



The age of the Domestic Hog is said to extend 

 from fifteen to twenty-rive years, or even more. 



.ETHIOPIAN HOG. 



Sus ^thiopicus. S. sacculo molli sub vculis. Un. Syst. Nat. 



Gmel. p. 220. 



Hog with wattles beneath the eyes. 

 Aper JEthiopicus. Pallas Mi&cell.- Zool. p. 16. t. 2. Spic. 



Zool.2.p.3. t. is. p. 84. .5. / 7. 

 Sanglier du Cap Verd. fiittf'. Suppl. 3. p. 76. pi. u. 

 ./Ethiopian Hog. Pennant Quadr. i, p. 144. 



THIS animal is very much allied in its general 



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appearance to tlie common Hog, but is distin- 

 guished by a pair of large, flat, semicircular lobes 

 or wattles, placed beneath the eyes ; the snout is 

 also of a much broader form, and is very strong 

 and callous : the ears arc large and very slightly 

 pointed : the tusks in the lower jaw arc rather 

 small ; but those in the upper jaw are large, sharp, 

 curved, and in the old animal bend upwards in a 

 semicircular manner towards the forehead : there 

 are no fore-teeth ; their place being supplied b\ 

 hard gums*: the skin of the lace, imme- 

 diately below the eyes, or above the broad 1< 

 before-mentioned, is loose and wrinkled, and on 

 each side the corners of the mouth is a callous 



This at least waa the case in the specimen at the Hague. 



