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niemals audi bei dem fettesten wilden Schweine, die gestreifte Farbe des Frischlings 

 ist sogar merkwiirdig, die Stim der wilden Schweine ist mehr gewolbt, die Ohren 

 sind kiirzer, mehr zugenindet, der Riissel langer, andere Verhaltnisse an den innern 

 Theilen zu geschweigen. Es fehlt ganz an Beispielen, dass die Zahmung solche 

 Veranderungen hervorgebracht. Vielleicht stammt das zahme Schwein von einer 

 orientalischen Art ab, welche gross aber unschadlich sein soil, und hin und wieder in 

 einigen Reisebeschreibungen erwahnt wird ^. Duch- erfordert die Sache noch eine 

 genauere Untersuehung. Das siamische Schwein aus dem ostlichen Asien abstam- 

 mend, ist ohne Zweifel eine besondere Art.' 



Precisely the opposite view was held by Mr. Youatt, who at 

 p. ^^ of his work on 'The Pig,' London, 1847, says, when speaking 

 of the wild boar^ 



•No one can for a moment doubt that it is the parent stock from which the 

 domesticated breeds of swine originally sprang.' 



Blasius (' Saugethiere,' 1857, p. 509), Fr. Cuvier ('Hist, des 

 Mamm.,' 1824). and Giebel (' Saugethiere/ p. 225, 1859), would, I 

 apprehend, agree with the extreme view enunciated by Mr. Youatt. 

 An intermediate view is put forward by Eiitimeyer in his inestim- 

 able work, 'Die Fauna der Pfahlbauten,' pp. 186-190: according 

 to him, what, owing to the slow spread in Germany of improved 

 breeds, may still be called das gemeine Hausschwein has originated 

 from Sus scrofa^ \2ir.ferus; whilst the Berkshire breeds, he thinks, 

 may owe their origin to Sus celebensis ; and his Sus scrofa, var. 

 palustris, ' das Torfschwein,' a domestic pig known as ' das Biindt- 

 ner Schwein,' and Sus indicus may represent a distinct stocky if not 

 species. Nathusius, in his ' Scbweineschadel,' p. 175, agrees with 

 Biitimeyer as to the origin of the large-eared race common in 

 Central Europe, but suggests Sus viMatus^ of the islands of Java, 

 Borneo, Amboyna, and Batchian, as the parent stock of the widely- 

 spread domestic breed known as Sus indicus. In this latter point 

 he agrees with S. Miiller. Fitzinger (1. c.) differs from Nathusius 

 in supposing, without perhaps adequate reasons, Sus leucomystax to 

 be the parent stock of the Chinese, Cape, Portuguese, and Cleve- 

 land breeds, whilst Sus cristatus, the wild pig of Hindostan, he 

 suggests as the parent stock of the Siamese and Sardinian races. 

 Temminck ('Fauna Japonica,' p. ^"j, pi. xx, cit. Nathusius, I.e. 

 p. 167) suggests that Sus leucomystax may be the parent of the 

 domestic Sus indicus ; and though Nathusius, p. 167, demurs to 



^ Otter, 'Voyage en Persie,' t. i. p. 207; D. Maillet, 'Description de TEgypte,' 

 t. ii. p. 176. 



