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Size approximately that of a large wild boar ; body 

 shorter than in Hippopotamus, with the line of the back 

 much arched, and the croup sloping away behind ; skin 

 much as in typical genus. 



Distribution, at the present day, co-extensive with that of 

 the genus. 



50. 7. 5. 1 (1312, a). Cast of type skull. Original from 

 St. Paul's Eiver, Liberia. 



Presented ly Dr. S. G. Morton, 1850. 



FIG. 56. FORE-FEET OF PIGMY HIPPOPOTAMUS (Chceropsis liberiensis), A, 



AND ORDINARY HIPPOPOTAMUS (Hippopotamus amphibius), B. 



From Pocock, The Field, 1913. 



87. 9. 15. 1 (1312, b). Skin and skeleton, mounted. Du 

 Queah Eiver, Liberia ; collected by Dr. J. Biittikofer. 

 Noticed by Flower, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 612. 



Purchased, 1887. 



8. 10. 22?. 1. Skin, immature, mounted. Liberian frontier 



of Sierra Leone. Presented ly J. Rowland Ward, Esq., 1908. 



14. 6. 21. 1. Skull and skin, old and large female. Moa 



Valley, Daru, Sierra Leone ; collected by E. M. S. Baynes, 



Esq. Purchased, 1914. 



