CAPE VERD BOAR. 251 



Befides, M. Comerfon informs rae, that there 

 are wild boars in Madagaicar, whofe head, from 

 the ears to the eyes, is of the ordinary form ; 

 but that below the eyes is a protuberance which 

 gradually tapers to the end of the fnout, fo that 

 the animal appears to have two heads, the half 

 of. the one funk into the other. The fiefh of 

 this hog is flimy and infipid. This information 

 made me fufpeft, that the animal I had firft 

 mentioned under the denomination of the }Vild 

 Boar of Cape Verd, becaufe its head was brought 

 from the neighbourhood of that Cape, and af- 

 terwards called it the Wild udfrican Boar^ becaufe 

 it exifts in the neighbourhood of the Cape of 

 Good Hope, is likewife found in the ifland of 

 of Madagafcar. 



Jddltlon by Profcjor AUamand. 



M. de BufFon, in his hiftory of the hog, has 

 fhown, that he eludes all thofe methodical di- 

 flributions into clafTes and genera, the diftin- 

 guifhing charaders of which are derived from 

 particular parts of the body. Though his rea- 

 fcns are not to be anfwercd, they would have 

 acquired additional force, ir he had been ac- 

 quainted with the animal under conlideration. 

 It is a wild boar fent from the Cape of Good 



Hope, 



