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BABYROUSSA. 



Sus Babyrussa. S. dentibut duobus caninu fronti mnatu. Lin. 



Syst. Nat. p. 104. 

 Hog with the two upper tusks growing from the lower part of 



the front. 



Porcus Indicus Babyrousea dictus. llay. Quadr. p. 96. 

 Horned Hog. Grew. Mut. Reg. Soc.p. 2-^.pf. i. 

 Babiroussa. Buff". 12. p. 379. and Suppl. 3. p. 19. pi. 12. 

 Baby-Roussa. Pennant Quadr. i.p. 148. 



THI BtbyrOOtttt is nearly of the size of a com- 

 mon Hog, but of a somewhat longer form, and 

 with more slender limbs, and is covered, ins' 

 of bristles, with fine, .short, and somewhat woolly 

 hair, of a deep brown or blackish colour, inter- 

 spersed with a tew bristles on the upper and hinder 

 part of the back. It is also distinguished by the 

 extraordinary position and form of the upper 

 tusks, which, instead of being- situated internally 

 on the edge of the jaw, as in other animals, are 

 placed externally, perforating the skin of the 

 snout, and turning upwards toward the forehead, 

 and as the animal advances in age, become so ex- 

 tremely long and curved as to touch the forehead 

 and continue their curvature downwards, by 

 which means they must of necessity lose their 

 power as offensive weapons, which they probably 

 poNbtss in the younger animal: the tusks of the 

 lower jaw are formed as in the rest of the genus, 

 and are also very long, sharp, and curved ; but not 

 pf equal magnitude with those of the upper. The 

 upper tusks are of a fine hard grain, like that of 



