WILD BOAR 



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the back. The age of fallow bucks may be estimated by the size of the antlers 

 and the breadth and division of their palmations. The food of fallow deer is 

 much the same as that of red deer, but they seem to prefer horse-chestnuts, 

 which the bucks often shake off the branches with their antlers. The}' yield 

 better venison than red deer, and a softer and more elastic but thinner leather. 



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A SOUNDER OF WILD SWINE. 



They are hunted exactly like their larger relative, and furnish similar materials 

 for commercial purposes. 



Wild Boar. 



In addition to the true ruminants, the ungulates are repre- 

 sented in the central European forests by one member of the 

 swine group. This group includes pigs, peccaries, and hippopotamuses, none of 

 which ruminate. All of them have simple stomachs ; and they are distinguished 

 from the camels and the true ruminants by the structure of their feet, as well as 

 by their teeth. Unlike those of the true ruminants, the upper bones of the feet 

 are not fused into a cannon-bone, in which respect they resemble the African 

 water-chevrotain. The pigs are distinguished by a long head, and the prolongation 



