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III. POTAMOCHCEEUS HASSAMA. 



Nyctochcerus hassama, Heiiglin, Nova Acta. Ac. Cces. Leop.-Car. 

 vol. xxx, Nachtrag 2, p. 7, 1863, Beise Nord-Ost Afrika, pp. 97 

 and 277, 1877 ; Nehring, Zool. Garten, vol. xxxvi, p. 50, 1895. 



Potamochoerus hassama, Major, Proc. Zoc. Soc. 1897, p. 368 ; Both- 

 schild, Powell-Cotton's Abyssinia, p. 481, 1902; Lydekker, Game 

 Animals of Africa, p. 395, 1908 ; Lonnberg, Arkiv Zool. vol. vii, 

 no. 6, p. 37, 1910. 



Sus choeropotamus hassama, Lydekker, Great and Small Game of 

 Africa, p. 523, 1899. 



ASSAMI. 



Type of Nyctoch&rus. 



Typical locality Abyssinia. 



Type in Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt-am-Main. 



Apparently allied in external characters, as well as in 

 the development of the facial tuberosities, to P. cheer opotamus, 

 but the parietal region of which the flat portion is com- 

 paratively narrow, although rather less so than in P. c. 

 nyasce much longer, both actually, and relatively to the 

 rest of the skull. 



No specimen in collection. 



IV. POTAMOCHOERUS POROUS. 



Sus porcus, Linn., Syst. Nat. ed. 10, vol. i, p. 50, 1759, ed. 12, 

 vol. i, p, 108, 1766; Flower and Lydekker, Study of Mammals, 

 p. 286, 1891 ; Lydekker, Horns and Hoofs, p. 363, 1893 ; Bryden, 

 Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 531, 1899. 



Sus penicillatus, Schinz, Monogr. Sdugeth. pt. x, p. 12, 1848, Rev. 

 Zool. 1848, p. 152. 



Potamochoerus penicillatus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1852, p. 131, 

 pi. xxxiv, 1854, 1858, p. 58; Sclater, ibid. 1861, p. 62, pi. xii ; 

 Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 279, 1862 ; Noack, 

 Zool. Jahrb., Syst. vol. ii, p. 197, 18b7 ; Pousargues, Ann. Sci. 

 Nat., Zool. vol. iv, p. 90, 1896 ; Stehlin, Abh. schweiz. pal. Ges. 

 vol. xxvi, p. 71, 1899. 



Potamochoerus porcus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 36, Cat. 

 Carnivora, etc. Brit. Mus. p. 349, 1869, Hand-List Thick- 

 skinned Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 56, 1897, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 ser. 4, vol. xv, p. 45, 1875 ; Flower and Garson, Cat. Osteol. 

 Mus. B. Coll. Surg. pt. ii, p. 356, 1884 ; Major, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1897, pp. 363 and 369 ; Stehlin, Abh. schweiz. pal. Ges. vol. xxvii, 

 pi. x, fig. 7, 1900 ; Lydekker, Game Animals of Africa, p. 396, 

 1908 ; Lonnberg, Arkiv Zool. vol. vii, no. 6, p. 3, 1910 ; Ward, 

 Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 456, 1910, ed. 7, p. 455, 1914. 



Sus choeropotamus porcus, Lydekker, Great and Small Game of 

 Africa, p. 523, 1899. 



