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below the eyes (fig. 54); ears small and triangular; coat 

 sparse and bristly, almost completely shed in adults, with 

 the exception of a mane on the neck and a terminal tail-tuft ; 

 skull wide and long, much depressed, with a deeply concave 

 profile, a very short postorbital portion, and no lateral 

 angulation of the nasal region ; prenasal ossicle separate from 

 nasals. Young uniformly coloured. 



The range embraces suitable localities throughout Ethio- 

 pian Africa. 



PHACOCHCERUS ^THIOPICUS. 



Aper aethiopicus, Pallas, Spirit. Zool. fasc. ii, p. 2, 1767. 



Sus sethiopicus, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, vol. i, p. 223, 1768 ; Erxle- 



ben, Syst. Regn. Anim. vol. i, p. 187, 1777 ; Griffith, Animal 



Kingdom, vol. iii, p. 833, 1827. 



Phacochcerus sethiopicus, Cuvier, Eegne Animal, vol. i, p, 1817 ; 

 F. Cuvier, Dent. Mamm. p. 217, pi. xxviii, 1822 ; J. B. Fischer, 

 Synop. Mamm. p. 424, 1829 ; Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 185, 1843, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 48, Cat. Carnivora, etc. 

 Brit. Mus. p. 353, 1869, Hand-List Thick-skinned Mamm. Brit. 

 Mus. p. 69, 1873 ; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 78, pi. xvii, 

 1860, p. 443 ; Giebel, Sdugethiere, p. 236, 1855 ; Gerrard, Cat. 

 Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 279, 1862 ; Fitzinger, Sitzber. k. Ak. 

 Wiss. Wien, vol. xix, pt. 1, p. 39, 1864 ; Flower and Garson, Cat. 

 Osteol. Mus. R. Coll. Surg. pt. ii, p. 363, 1884 ; W. L. Sclater, 

 Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. ii, p. 197, 1891, Fauna S. Africa, 

 Mamm. vol. i, p. 277, 1900; Flower and Lydekker, Study of 

 Mammals, p. 289, 1891 ; Nicolls and Eglington, Sportsman in 

 S. Africa, p. 77, 1892 ; Lydekker, Horns and Hoofs, p. 370, 1893, 

 Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 517, 1899, Game Animals of 

 Africa, p. 399, 1908, Suppl. p. 23, 1911 ; Stehlin, Abh. schweiz. 

 pal. Ges. vol. xxvi, p. 276, 1899; Eothschild, Powell- Cotton's 

 Abyssinia, p. 482, 1902, Alexander, From Niger to Nile, vol. ii, 

 p. 394, 1907 ; Drake-Brockman, Mamm. Somali, p. 100, 1910 ; 

 Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 458, 1910, ed. 7, p. 457, 

 1914. 



Phascochcerus asthiopicus, F. Cuvier, Mem. Mus. Paris, vol. viii, 

 p. 450, pi. xxiii, 1817. 



Phacochcerus barbatus, Temminck, Mon. Mamm. vol. i, p. 29, 1827. 



Phascochcerus edentatus, I. Geoffroy, Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. vol. xiii, 

 p. 320, 1828. 



Phacochcerus typicus, A. Smith, S. African Quart. Journ. vol. ii, 

 p. 90, 1834. 



Phacochcerus pallasi, Van derHoeven, Nova Ada Ac. Cxs. Leop.-Car. 

 vol. xix, p. 171, 1839; Owen, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1851, p. 63, Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, vol. xi, p. 246, 1853. ' 



Phacochcerus aper aethiopicus, Beichenbach, Pachyderm, p. 35, 1846. 



