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ON THE DOMESTIC PIG OF 



pp. 33 and i88, and, per contra^ Nathnsius, I. c. pp. 49 and 103). In 

 the straightness of its vertical contour it contrasts with S. celebensis; 

 S. andama7iensi8^ S. vittalus, as figured by Muller and Schlegel, /. 0. 

 plate 32. fig. 6, and with S. barhatus ; and resembles 8, cristaius^ as 

 it does also in its general facies. Dr. A. B. Meyer thinks that this 

 8us may possibly deserve to be considered a new species, 8. terna- 

 tensis; but having had abundant experience of the facility with 

 which the wild pigs of that region cross considerable arms of the 

 sea, he would, I gather, express himself with much caution as to its 

 relations to S. papuensis and the Suidae of the neighbouring islands, 

 volcanic and other, tenanted by swine. The colouring, however, of 

 the head of this Sus differs from that of any other Sms seen by 

 Dr. A. B. Meyer, or figured by Schlegel — the head being covered 

 all over with long black hair, except in the region occupied by 

 a broad yellowish brown streak beginning between the eyes and 

 descending to the snout, where it broadens. 



Measurements of skull of 'Sus ternatensis.' 



Length from foramen magnum to tip of intermaxillaries 

 ,, occipital squama „ „ 



„ „ to tip of nasals 



Length of nasals 



Anterior part of line of frontal and sagittal sutures 

 Posterior part of same line 



Molar length 



Incisive bone length 

 Greatest interzygomatic width 

 Greatest facial width 



Least facial width 



Intermaxillary width 



Least nasal width 



Intermolar width 



Interpremolar width 



Occipital height 



Lacrymal orbital border ... 



,, malar border 



„ upper border 



niillims. 

 . 290 

 • 355 

 ' 345 

 . 17 

 . 86 ■ 



. 95 

 . 143 



. 57 ■ 



. 137 = 



95 ■ 



36 = 



. 40 ■■ 



. 28 : 



49 = 



44 ■■ 

 III = 



25 = 

 20 ■■ 



34 



inches. 

 11.4 

 14.1 



I.V5 



16.7 

 3.2 

 3-7 

 5-65 



2-2 

 5-65 



3-8 



1-45 



1.6 



i-i 



1.9 



1-75 

 4.4 



= 1-3 



A comparison of the two skulls of the domestic pig of Monghyr, 

 Bengal ^ — which animals, as Mr. Lockwood informs me, are kept in 

 large numbers by the pariah castes of his district, feed on human 

 ordure, and are sold out of the district to the Chinamen at 



For which I am indebted to the kindness of E. Lockwood, Esq. 



