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are nearer each other and the ears, than in our 

 European boars. Below the eyes, there is a de- 

 preffion in the fkin, which forms a kind of 

 wrinkled fac. The infide of his ears are clofely 

 covered with hair. A little lower, and near the 

 fide of the eyes, the fkin rifes and forms two ex- 

 crefcences, which, when viewed at a certain di- 

 ftance, have a perfedt refemblance to a couple of 

 ears, being of the fame figure and fize, and, 

 though not moveabJe, they lie nearly in the 

 fame plane with the fore-head. Still lower, be- 

 tween thcfe excrefcences and the tufks, there is 

 a large wart on each fide of the head. It is eafy 

 to perceive, that a configuration of this kind mud 

 give a very fmgular afpedl to the animal. When 

 viewed in front, we think we fee four ears up- 

 on a head which has no refemblance to that of 

 any known animal, and infpires terror by the 

 largencfs of its tufks. 



Pallas * and Vofniaer, who have given good 

 defcriptions of this boar, tell us, that, when he 

 arrived in Holland, he was very mild and tame ; 

 that, as he had been feveral months on board 

 the vefTel, and had been taken young, he was 

 become almoll domeftic ; but that, when purfued 

 by ftrangers, he retired flowly backward, and 

 prefented his front with a menacing air ; and even 

 thofe who were daily near him were not with- 

 out apprehenfions of danger. One day he con- 

 ceived 



* Pallas, Mifcellanea Zoologica ; et ejufdcm SpiciJegia 

 Zoolpgica, Fafciculus Secundus. 



