PREHISTORIC TIMES IN BRITAIN. 551 



Dr. A. B. Meyer's specimen was more brown than Miiller's and 

 Schlegel's figure, pi. 28 Us ; the tuft at the angle of the mouth red- 

 brown, and the hair on the nape longer. As to his measurements 

 of /S. celebensis, Dr. A. B. Meyer observes that they are taken from 

 a ^full-grown animal, and, being larger than those of Miiller and 

 Schlegel, bring S. celebensis more nearly on to a level with S. verru- 

 cosus. Its smaller size suggests the dwarfing action of a confined 

 insular habitat undergone in some of the upheavals or subsidences 

 of Celebes. 



Dr. A. B. Meyer informs me that the young of -tS'. celebensis 

 are striped, in contradiction to the suggestion which I (see p. 541, 

 supra), being impressed with the closeness of the affinity between 

 this Sus and 8. verrucosus (which Miiller and Schlegel had declared 

 not to be striped when young), had thrown out. He informs me 

 also that he has the authority of General von Schierbrant, who has 

 lived thirty years in Java and is a first-rate sportsman, for saying 

 that Miiller and Schlegel {I.e. p. 177) are not correct in what they 

 say is the case with S. verrucosus. If this be so, the claim which 

 S. verrucosus would have had to be considered the parent stock of 

 our improved breed of pigs falls to the ground. On the other 

 hand, I cannot, knowing the great modificatory power which 

 domesticating influences of one kind or other have been proved 

 to possess over the highly plastic porcine organism, and bearing 

 in mind the similarity between the Irish greyhound pig and 

 S. verrucosus, agree with Professor Riitimeyer (p. 184, I.e., 1864) in 

 excluding this Sus from consideration when we are speculating as 

 to the parentage of our domestic pigs. 



The skull of the 8us from Ternate lent me by Dr. A. B. Meyer 

 belonged to a young male, the third molars of which were just 

 coming into place, and which may be supposed therefore, according 

 to the analogy of 8. scrofa, var. domesticus, if that may be taken as 

 any guide, to have been about eighteen months old (see Nathusius, 

 I.e. p. zi). It differs from skulls of xS. cristatus in the flatness of 

 its lacrymo-frontal ridge, in the convexity backwards of its naso- 

 frontal suture, and in being somewhat smaller than male skulls of 

 that variety of Stis usually are. The posterior lobes of its third 

 molars are not quite so large as they usually are in S. cristatus; 

 but to this point I am not inclined to assign as much importance 

 as some other writers do (see Riitimeyer, ' Fauna der Pfahlbauten,' 



