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Colour — Above brown, more or less rufous. Back in old 

 individuals nearly black, but alwa3-s more or less mixed with 

 rufous or yellow, from some of the hairs having a yellow ring- 

 near the end. Hair at base light brown. Sides paler ; nape 

 and upper surface of neck almost or quite black, contrasting 

 with the light brown of the sides. Lower parts white, 

 variously mixed with light rufous and usually with a median 

 narrow brown or rufous line throughout the breast, in front of 

 this is a brown cross band and on the fore neck an arrowhead- 

 like brown mark, sometimes imperfect, with three white 

 stripes, one median, within the arrow-head, the other two 

 diverging, one on each side, outside of it ; the last two joining 

 on the throat. Rump rufous, inside of thighs and inter- 

 mediate space always white ; tail ru 'bus-brown above, white 

 below. 



Dimensions — The largest adults measure : nose to root of 

 tail i8'5 inches, tail 3 ( C intor J , tarsus and hind foot 4-4 to ;. 

 Basal length of a maL- skull 3.4, extreau length y^)z, ; 

 zygomatic breadth rq. 



Dyak name ' Kamaya panas.' Kayan name ' Planok.' 



Hab. Baram River (C. Hose). Su li River (C. Cox). 

 Mount Dulit, 2,000-ft. (C. Hose). 



F AM I I. Y S Ur D.E. 



GENUS S U S . 



SUS BARBATUS. 



Sus biirb:itiis. 



The pig is common everywhere is Borneo, and very 

 destructive to the gardens, whenever there is plenty of fruit 

 about, this animal comes in large numbers. They, however, 

 afford very good sport, as will be seen in m^' short account of 

 a days pig hunting taken from the Meld of April, 1893 : — 



" WITH SPEAli AM) HOUND IX I3A1>:AM, SARAWAK. 



It is six o'clock", on a bright spi ing morning ; all the men 

 are up and hastily snatching a few mouthfuls of food, and vainly 

 endeavouring to drink the hot coffee, which endeavour results 

 in curses and scalded mouths. The hounds have had a small 

 meal an hour before, and the Dyak hunters, spear in hand, are 

 anxiously waiting for the signal to start. There is something 

 refreshingly pre-historic about the sport in which we purpose 

 indulging to-day. We discard the appliances of civilization as 

 represented by the rifle and the 12 -bore breechloader, and set 

 out for the chase with much the same weapons, and in much 

 the same manner as did our ancestors in the neolithic age. In 

 our method and equipment we furnish an argument against 



