WART HOGS. 



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The flesh of this animal is highly prized as an article of 



of a Deer, and to be of a fierce disposition, 

 food in the countries in which it is found. 



THE WAKT HOGS (Plwcochvrus) constitute the second well-marked group to be considered under 

 the head of the family of Hogs. They range over tropical Africa from Abyssinia to Caffraria. They 

 are remarkable, not only for having enormous tusks, and for the development of a large excrescence, 

 or wart, under each eye, but also for the peculiar construction of their last grinding teeth. These are 



massive, and composed of prisms of enamel surrounding a central mass of dentine, and embedded in 

 the cement which unites them into one tooth. There is only one pair of upper incisors, and the last 

 molars are the only ones which are not shed in the old animal. The canines are large, recurved, 

 sharp, and project eight or nine inches beyond the lips. 



Two species of this peculiar genus occur in Africa. ELIAN'S WART HOG* is a native of the North 

 of Africa. Its skin is of a reddish colour, sparingly supplied with bristles ; the neck and back support 

 a mane, some of the bristles of which attain a considerable length. 



THE ETHIOPIAN WART HOG (P. cvthiopicus) is a native of the southern portions of Africa, and 

 differs principally from the preceding in the larger size of the warts, and a more peculiarly shaped head. 

 The food of both species of Wart Hogs appears to consist almost entirely of roots. 



Phacffchcerus JF.lianus. 



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