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sent stands as the Phasiocherus Africanus of syste- 
matists, “ I shall now,” says he, “ describe a new 
species of boar which is peculiar to Africa, and 
possesses a very peculiar form ;” a form now gene- 
rally known, which consists principally in several 
great excrescences about the snout, and which has 
procured for it the popular name of the marked or 
wart-hog. It was by mere inference that he con- 
cluded that it was the same as the boar of Mada- 
gascar (Sus larvatus). His words are, “I scarcely 
doubt that the African boar seen by Adanson was 
this species, and hence we may conclude it is found 
in the whole warmer regions of Africa, at least as 
far as the Niger. It is probably, too, an inhabitant 
of Madagascar, according to the testimony of Flac- 
court ; hence I conclude I may apply to it the name 
Aper Aithiopicus. 'This name is probably unfortu- 
nate, as it would appear that the characters of that 
species described by Ruppel, A. Zliani, as existing 
in that country, are sufficiently distinct.”* Passing 
by the short paper in which he maintains that the 
opossum and ant-eaters are not confined to the New 
World, we shall draw our account of the quadru- 
peds mentioned in this volume to a close, by stating 
that there is a minute description first given in this 
work, not in the Spicilegia Zoologica, as it is fre- 
quently stated, of the Grim, or Antilope grimmie : 
this is preceded by a monograph of the antelopes, 
in which they are divided into three genera and 
seventeen species. 
* See the Naturalist’s Library, Mammalia, vol. v. p. 219. 
