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individual tendency to blackish, greyish, or rufous ; face, 

 cheeks, and throat with a grizzling of whitish hairs, which 

 does not, however, form definite markings ; bristles of nape 

 long, but not forming a conspicuous crest ; under-fur 

 (occasionally wanting) thick and woolly ; young brown with 

 blackish stripes. 



The range formerly included the whole of the afforested 

 districts of temperate Europe, from Ireland and Scandinavia 



FIG. 49. SIDE VIEW OF SKULL, WITH THE LOWER JAW DETACHED, OF 

 WILD BOAR (Stis scrofa). \ nat. size. 

 From Miller, Cat. Mamm. Western Europe. 



eastwards, but is now limited to the countries south of the 

 Baltic ; eastwards it appears to include all temperate Asia 

 north of the line of the Himalaya. 



The better-known races are distinguishable as follows : 



A. Colour dark, without marked contrast between 

 body and limbs. 



a. Size very large ; upper skull-length 



17f inches S. s. attila. 



b. Size smaller; skull-length 15 to J6 inches S. s. scrofa. 



