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luve in Umbundu and Cokuc) is widely distributed 

 throughout the more open country of Angola, and 

 near the rivers, but is nowhere very numerous. 

 Tliis pig, with big warts and tushes in his head, 

 short legs, and habit of holding his tufted tail 

 vertical, is one of the most grotesque- looking 

 animals in Africa. T-keir-feod consists mainly of 

 roots of plants, fcfiough I fhave found grass in their 

 stomachs in tKe springllimc. I ^ame across the 

 spoor of thegfe animals jjjrequently,\ but saw them 



only three or four timeis during the trip, and lost 



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one chance/of a rare photo, when a family of wart 



hogs, father, mother, apid four young, ran right 

 into me before there wartime to photograph them. 

 The alarmiof the parent! was cvident/and quaintly 

 expressed, \ and the sight in the ijhirror of my 

 " Reflex " Camera of six piggies running off with 

 their upright, tufted tails fluttering like the stern 

 flags of a sqiiadron. of ships, rrimle me laugh so 

 heartily that the x photo_was-|3oilt from " shake ' : 

 effect. 



The GIANT HOG (Ilylochccnis meinertzhageni) 

 has the warts and big tushes of the wart hog, but 

 a coat more like a boar's ; and exceeds both these 

 pigs in size. The animal is stated by the natives 

 to be present in the wooded ravines of the Bailundo 

 province. 



The BUSH PIG or RIVER HOG (Potamochcerus 

 cheer opotamus) (Combo in Cokue) is widely distri- 

 buted in forest country, especially near rivers. 

 I saw its spoor near the Loando and Coanza Rivers 

 in the north, on the Coporollo, and once or twice 

 ncnr some of the smaller streams in the forest 



