WILD HOG. 429 



A left upper tusk of a Boar from the newer pliocene beds 

 near Brighton presented a broader longitudinal internal 

 strip of enamel than in those tusks of the Wild Boar of 

 Europe or India which I had for comparison ; the longitu- 

 dinal groove along the unenamelled part was also deeper 

 in the fossil. 



The Rev. Mr. Green of Bacton submitted to my inspec- 

 tion the extremity of the tusk of a Wild Boar, and the 

 crown of a tubercular molar of a young Hog, which he had 

 obtained from the blue clay and submerged forest bed at 

 Hasbro' on the Norfolk coast. These remains of the genus 

 Sus were in the same fossilized condition as the bones and 

 teeth of the extinct species of Mammalia from the same 

 locality; and I believe them to have been of equal anti- 

 quity. These instances of unequivocal fossil remains of the 

 Hog tribe are, however, very rare. 



The fine skull of the Wild Boar (fig. 172,) discovered by 

 Capt. Manning in a fissure of the freestone quarries in the 

 Isle of Portland, and described by Dr. Buckland at a late 

 meeting of the Geological Society, has not such decided 

 claims to an equal antiquity with the Mammoth and Tro- 

 gonthere, and it is unquestionably identical with the exist- 

 ing species of European Wild Boar. I owe to Dr. Buckland's 

 kindness the opportunity of figuring this fossil, which is pre- 

 served in Capt. Manning's collection at Portland Castle. 



I have received remains of a Hog, associated with bones 

 of a Brown Bear ( Ursus Arctos} and other existing species 

 of Mammalia, which were obtained by Mr. Whitwell of 

 Kendal, from a limestone cavern at Arnside Knott, near 

 that town. 



The anterior part of the left ramus of the jaw of a Hog 

 has been obtained from the drift formation at Kessling- 

 land, Suffolk. 



