THE BUSH HOG OF SOUTH AFRICA. 



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which had been sent to the Society, on the 29th of April 1806, by 

 M. Faghuarie, governor of that province." This tapir is as common 

 at Malacca as the rhinoceros and elephant. In size he closely 

 approaches the common ass. He is black all over, except the ears, 

 which are fringed with white, and on the back, which is of a pale 

 gray. His habits are identical with those of the American tapirs, to 

 be described hereafter. 



In the African plains, from Nubia and Senegal to the Cape, we 



RHINOCEBOS. 

 African Phacoccerus (Chceripotamus AfHcanus). 



meet with a Pachyderm intermediate between the hippopotamus 

 and the wild boar : this is the Phacocoerus, which was known to the 

 ancients, and designated by credulous ^Elian the Sus tetrakeros, or 

 " Boar with Four Horns." He has no horns, however, but only, 

 beneath each ear, a horny protuberance, which greatly disfigures his 

 head, and procures him the popular appellation of the "Warty Hog" 

 the "Bush Vark," or "Bush Hog" of South Africa (Choeripotamus 



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