

CASSKLI/S UVULAR NATURAL HISTORY. 



Tlie pigs of France may be divided into three races : the Norman species, with very long ears, 

 entirely covering the snout, white hair, and of large but slow growth ; the Craonnais race, with 

 shorter ears, the body shorter and wider, and rather less in height than the preceding ; and the 

 Limousin kind, with ears about the same as the Craonnais, a similar form, and a mixture of black, 

 white, and red hair. 



THE BABIROUSSA.* 



THE name of this animal means literally hog-deer, and there is reason to think that the ancients were 

 not altogether unacquainted with the Babiroussa. Pliny notices a wild boar with horns on the fore- 

 head, found in India; and Cosmos, a writer in the sixth century, uses the term hog-deer, t as. the 

 designation of an Indian animal. However this may be, it is only recently that naturalists have 

 become well acquainted with it and its habits, though skulls of these animals have been brought over 

 to Europe in abundance by vessels trading among the Moluccas. 



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THE H.UtlROUSSA. 



The babiroussa differs somewhat in dentition from the hog, the incisors being iour above instead 

 of six, and the molars five on each side, in either jaw. The upper canines, or tusks, of the male 

 emerge directly upwards from their apparently distorted sockets, and sweep with a bold arch back- 

 wards, attaining to a very great length. The skin is thick, coarse, of a blackish tint, and sparingly 

 beset with very short, bristly hairs. The tusks of the lower jaw are long, strong, and sharp, emerging 

 like these of the boar. The tusks of the upper jaw do not pass out between the lips, but cut their 

 way through the skin, nearly half way between the end of the snout and the eyes. The tusks of the 

 lower jaws are formidable weapons. The male, when adult, equals the largest hog ; the female is of 

 much inferior size, and destitute of the curled upper tusks, or has them only rudimentary. 



This animal is found in the marshy forests in the interior of Bourou, and other of the Molucca 

 islands, as Amboynu, und also Java, where it associates in troops. Its habits resemble those of the 



* Sus Babirussa. Linnxus, Babirussa alfrurus. F. Cuvier. t KotpcXo^oc. 



