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The Papuan swine described under the following names 

 are regarded by Stehlin (Abh. schiveiz. pal. G-es. vol. xxvi, 

 p. 292, 1899) and Bauschke (Arch. Naturgesch. vol. Ixxvii, 

 p. 1, 1911) as the descendants of domesticated or semi- 

 doinesticated animals introduced by human agency ; the latter 

 writer considering that they are all derivatives from the 

 8. vittatus stock. In the Bismarck and Caroline groups 

 more or less pure-bred vittatus occurs in a feral condition. 



Sus papuensis, Lesson and Garnot, Bull. Sci. Nat. vol. vii, pp. 80 

 and 96, 1826, Voyage " Coquille," vol. i, p. 171, pi. viii, 1826; 

 Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 135, 1843, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1858, p. 107, 1868, p. 33, Cat. Carnivora, etc. Brit. Mus. p. 339, 

 1869, Hand-List Tliick-skinneu Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 60, 1873 ; 

 Peters and Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova, vol. xvi, pp. 666 and 698, 

 1881 ; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 165 ; Flower and Garson, 

 Cat. Osteol. Mus. R. Coll. Surg. pt. ii, p. 347, 1884; Finsch, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 218 ; Jentirik, Notes Leyden Mus. 

 vol. xiii, p. 97, 1891, vol. xxvi, p. 188, 1905 ; Meyer, Abh. Zool. 

 Mus. Dresden, vol. vi, p. 18, 1897; Elliot, Cat. Mamm. Field 

 Mus. (Field Mus. Zool. Pub. vol. viii) p. 31, 1907; Bauschke, 

 Arch. Naturgesch. 1911, p. 1; Dehaut, Zool. et Pal. Corse et 

 Sardaigne, p. 64, pi. iv, 1912. 



Sus ternatensis, Meyer, Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, vol. i, p. 276, 1877. 



Sus aruensis, Rosenberg, Malay Archip. p. 362, 1878. 



Sus aramensis, Rosenberg, op. cit. p. 368, 1878. 



Sus niger, Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 217 ; Jentirik, Notes 

 Leyden Mus. vol. xiii, p. 100, 1891, vol. xxvi, p. 190, 1905; 

 Meyer, Abh. Zool. Mus. Dresden, vol. vi, p. 18, 1896. 



Typical locality New Guinea ; also recorded from the 

 Admiralty and Bismarck groups, Jappen, Waigiou, Misul, 

 Ternate, Salawatti, Tidore, Ceram, Batanta, and the Key, 

 Aru, Yule, and Louisiade groups. 



Type in Paris Museum. 



949, a. Skin, female, mounted. New Guinea. 



Presented ty the Earl of Derby, 1843. 



50. 7. 20. 134 (50. 9. 6. 15949, 5). Skin, mounted, and 



skull, immature. Touton Island, south coast of New Guinea. 



Presented by Capt. Owen Stanley, 1850. 



60. 8. 27. 8 (1501, a). Skull, immature, provisionally 

 referred to the present group. Locality unknown (? Ternate) ; 

 collected by Dr. A. K. Wallace, O.M. 



Purchased (Stevens), 1860. 



61.12.11.25(1501,6). Skull. Ternate ; same collector. 

 Entered in Gray's Hand-List as S. timorensis ; referred by 



