18 \VI!.1> I. IF1-: IN NE\\ XliAI.AND. 



CHAITK1! III. 



CNU LATA WILD I'IGS. 



Mi people think they know all about pi<^. and hardl\ assoeiatc 

 tin-in with wild life in New Zealand. Thev usually consider them 

 ih:- dirti( ures on earth, and yet, with remarkable OlCOD- 



ncy. they cat liain an<l bacon without inquiring ton part icularh 

 how tin- animal.- producing them were reared <>r fed. The 1'iu i- 

 nanirally one il' tin- cli-am-si animals and most particular iVcdrrs 

 kno\\n. and it is onlv the lilthy way in which most people keep 

 them which is rcsponsiMc for their ,mpular n-j.ut at ion . 



the commonest of the larger mammals which have 

 heconu- fci;d in New Zealand, and are the most wide-spread. They 



plentiful in wild l.us!i coiintrx from ihe North Cape to the 

 Hlut'l. and have aNo ^ ( ,nc wild in the Chatham and Auckland 

 Islands. I hope to be aMe to tell the majority of my readers some 



- a!)out these much-maligned nniiiials which they did not know 



before. 



I'i-v (5fM trrnftn l>eloii- to the >ection of l"nj:ulates known as tin 



dacryla. f even-toed. Tliey walk on their third and fourth 



which are the only om s to reach the ground: those on each 



which arc much smaller and higher up. are the second and 



'here is no trace of the first. l*i-s are distinguished 



1 characters, of which the must outstanding are the bristh 



skin, the flexible snout tipped by a Meshy disk within which the 



rils open, tin- numerous n-cth and nisk-like while the 



i.l nloiiL' the underbid,. ,,f the body. Tln-y DC 



"ipiently non-i-umiiiat in- animals. Pi^s in- 



for they commence to bear vouiiL r when about 



-hi. and brim.- forth a birth. Dnmotie pi-j* 



j.roduce twelve, or even more, at a time; but wild pigs seldom I 



m. -re than -i \ or -even. 



bare the mo-' their intn .duct ion into this 



coin is u> that while he was in ( k >ueeii 



