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* fide of the head. On the nap of the neck, 

 ' and the anterior part of the hack, the briftles 



* are longeft and clofefl : Their colour is a 



* dufky brown and gray. Some of them are 

 ' feven or eight inches long : In thicknefs they 



* exceed not thofe of the common hog, and they 



* fplit in the fame manner. Thefe briftles are 



* not ftraight, but flightly inclined. Upon the 



* back, their number is fo fmall, that the {kin 



* appears to be naked. The flanks, breaft, belly, 



* flues of the head and neck, are garnilhed with 



* fmall white briftles. 



' The feet, like thofe of our hogs, are divi- 



* ded into two black, pointed hoofs. The tail is 



* naked, hangs perpendicularly, and terminates 



* almoft in a point. 



' The colour of the head is blackifli ; biit 



* that of the back and belly is a bright reddilh 

 ' gray.' 



Notwithftanding thefe differences pointed out 

 by M. Voimaer, and the repugnance which this | 

 boar difcovered to the few that was prefented 

 to it, I am uncertain whether it is not a variety 

 only of our European hog. This fpecies varies 

 greatly in Alia, Siam, and China. My uncer- 

 tainty is increafed by having found, about thir- 

 ty years ago, an enormous head of a wild boar 

 that was killed in my own woods, the tulks 

 of which were nearly as large as thofe of the 

 Cape boar. 



Befides, 



