242 THE ETHIOPIAN, OR 



of his teeth, and the enormous fize of the tufks 

 in his upper -jaw, appears to be a peculiar race, 

 if not a different fpecies from that of all the o- 

 ther hogs, and approaches toward the babirouffa. 

 Thefe tuflcs have a greater refei^blance to ivory 

 horns than to teeth. They are half a foot long, 

 five inches in circumference at the bafc, and 

 bended nearly like the horns of a bull. This 

 charadler alone is not fufEcicnt to conftltute a 

 difference in fpecies. But, what fupports this 

 prefumption, he likewife differs from all other 

 hogs in the length of the aperture of his noftrils, 

 in the great breadth and figure of his jaws, and 

 in the number and form of his grinders. How- 

 ever, we have feen the tuflcs of a wild boar, 

 which was killed in the woods of Burgundy, 

 and made an approach to the Cape Verd boar : 

 Its tufks were about three inches and a half long, 

 and four inches in circumference at the bafe. 

 They had alfo a double bend, like the horns of 

 a bull. They appeared likewife to confift of 

 folid ivory ; and, it is certain, that this boar mull 

 have had larger jaws than the common kind. 



Hence 



Engalla ; Sorranto's voyage in Churchill, vol. l. p. 667. Barhot, 

 p. 487. Dampicr's voyage, vol. I. p. 320. 



African wild boar ; Adanfon's voyage, p. 139. DcJlauJcj Mar- 

 lyns, Mem. Acad. torn. 5. p. 386. 



Sus TEthiopicus, Hardiooper; Pallas Mifcel. Zool. p. 16. 

 tab. II. Specil./afc. 2. p. 1. tab. i. Fla court Hiji. Madagajc. 

 p.Siu 



Sus ^thiopicus, facculo moUi fub oculis ; Linn. Sj^. Nat. 

 Append, torn. j. p. 223. ' . ' ' 



