426 



BUS. 



PACHYDERMATA. 



sus. 



Fig. 172. 



Fossil Skull of Wild Boar from drift, Isle of Portland, ^ nat. size. 



WILD HOG. Sus SCROFA. 



Coclion fossile, CUVIER, Annales du Museum, torn. xiv. p. 39. 



Sus Sorofafossilis, H. VON MEYER, Palseologica, p. 80. 



Suspriseus, GOLDPUSS, Nova Acta Acad. Nat. Cuv. t. xi. pt. 2. p. 482. 



Sus Arvernensis, (?) CROIZET AND JOBERT, Ossemens Fossiles du Puy-de- 



Dome, 4to., p. 157. 



Fossil Hog, BUCKLAND, Reliquiae Diluvianae, p. 59. 



Sus Scrofa, OWEN, Report of British Association, 1843, p. 228. 



WHEN Cuvier communicated his memoir on the fossil 

 bones of the Hog to the French Academy in 1 809, he had 

 met with no specimens from formations less recent than 

 the mosses or turbaries and peat-bogs, and knew not that 

 any had been found in the drift associated with the bones of 

 elephants. He repeats this observation in the edition of the 

 ' Ossemens Fossiles ' in 1822 ; but in the additions to the 

 last volume, published in 1825, Cuvier cites the discovery 

 by M. Bourdet de la Nievre, of a fossil lower jaw of a 8us, 

 on the east bank of the lake of Neufchatel, and a fragment 



