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NATURAL HISTORY. 



The Hog family is represented in the New World by the small though formidable animals 

 known as the PECCARIES (Dicotyles), which are not more than about three feet long, and about fifty or 



sixty pounds in weight. They live in herds, are 

 omnivorous, and are perhaps the most awkward 

 animals to be dealt with by the hunter in the 

 forests of South America. They know no fear, 

 and will attack anything which comes in their 

 way, inflicting frightful wounds with their short, 

 lancet-shaped tusks, which are entirely concealed 

 within their lips. They live in holes and hollow 

 logs, into which they back, one by one, until their 

 abode is full, the last standing as sentinel with 

 his head outside. This habit affords the hunter 

 an easy means of killing them, for if the sentinel 

 be killed outright the next takes his place, after 

 SKULL OF THE ETHIOPIAN WART HOG. pushing out the dead body, and this may go on 



until the last of the herd is killed. 



The dentition of the Peccary differs from that of the True Hogs in the smaller number of teeth, 

 which are thirty-eight, instead of forty-four, in number, the upper incisors being reduced to four, and 

 the premolars in the upper and lower jaws being six instead of eight. There are also differences in 



ETHIOPIAN WART HOO. 





