BUSH- PIGS 457 



WEST AFRICAN BUSH PIG or RED RIVER-HOG 



(Sus [Potamochoerus] porcus). 



In this species the colour is always some shade of rufous, either 

 shining brownish red with a tinge of yellow, or dark reddish yellow 

 with black on the forehead, ears, and limbs, and the mane of the back, 

 part of the margins of the ears, the tips of the long tufts of hairs 

 with which they are surmounted, and streaks above and below the eyes 

 white. 



Distribution. West Africa, from Angola to Senegambia, and eastwards 



to Monbuttu. 



35 " )S - Shire River, British Central Dr. Percy Kendall. 



Africa 



- Owner's measurements. 



FOREST HOG (Hylochoerus meinertzhageni). 



A huge black pig serving in some respects to connect the bush-pigs 

 with the wart-hogs, although markedly distinct from both. 



Distribution. Xandi Forest ; and represented by an allied species 

 in the Eastern Cameroons. 



Upper Tusks. 



Total Protruding Circum- Locality Owner. 



Length. from gum. ference. 



4 Xandi Forest, East Africa . Hon. Walter Rothschild. 



Lower Tusks. 

 |j_ j- ... 2^ Nandi Forest, East Africa . Hon. Walter Rothschild. 



