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Wild Boar from Germany, Sus scrofa, var. ferus, 3253 a : Royal Coll. Surg. England, adult. 

 Height of laciymal 0-9 in.; malar border 1*5 in. 



Wild Boar from Germany, Sus scrofa, var. ferus. Oxford University Museum, 1513 a. All teeth in 

 place. 



Height of laciymal 1 in. ; malar border 1*5 in. 



Wild Boar from Germany, Sus scrofa, var. ferus. Oxford University Museum, 1513. Presented by 

 Prof. Max Miiller ; with all teeth, except 3rd molar, in use ; 16 months old. 

 Height of laciymal 0"75 in. ; malar border P05 in. 



Young Wild Boar, Sus scrofa, var. ferus. Royal College of Surgeons of England. With first molar 

 only through, therefore between five and six months old, with frontals still very convex in vertical aspect, 

 but with fiat lacrymo-frontal ridge. 



Height of lacrymal - 7 in. ; malar border 0"7 in. ; frontal border 1/5 in. 



Skull of old Wild Sow, Sus scrofa, var. ferus, from alluvium near Oxford. Figured Plate XLI. fig. 2, 

 from the Geological Collection, Oxford University Museum. 

 Height of lacrymal 17 millims. ; malar border 18 millims. 



Skull, from peat, of Wild Sow, Sus scrofa, var /eras. British Museum. With 3rd molar through. 

 Height of lacrymal - 8 in. ; malar border 1-05 in. 



Skull from silt of old bed of Lea river, shown to me in British-Museum Geological Collection by 

 Mr. Davis. Under 18 months. 



Height of lacrymal 06 in. ; malar border 0"5 in. 



Second skull from same locality, and in British Museum, with all the teeth in place, and the third 

 molar with considerable complexity in its posterior lobe. 



Height of lacrymal 0"6 in.; malar border 0'8 in. 



Skull of Sus scrofa, var. ferns ? British Museum, 713 i. Skull of a young animal from the Zoological 

 Society's Museum. The animal was about 16 months old, all the teeth being in place except the 

 third molars above and below. There is still some convexity across the frontals, though flattening is 

 beginning on either side towards the ectorbital processes. The lacrmyo-frontal ridge is not markedly 

 convex; the nasals are convex backwards in the middle line. 



Height of lacrymal 0'9 in. ; malar border 075 in. 



Skull of -Sims scrofa, var. ferus? British Museum, 713 k. Skull of young animal about 6 months old, 

 from the Zoological Society's Museum. This skull was entered in the Catalogue of the Zoological Society's 

 Museum under the label A. 763 ; but no locality was recorded under this heading. The frontals are 

 convex from the level of the supraorbital foramina backwards ; the fronto-nasal suture is straight, nearly 

 as it is represented in the young German Wild Boar (Nathusius, I. c. Taf. iii. 12). Lacrymo-frontal 

 ridge is slightly convex. 



Height of lacrymal 075 in.; malar border 0"5 in. 



III. Sus verrucosus, yar. ceramica. 



Brit. Mus. 712 d. " Skull, adult. A Wild Boar from Ceram. Collected by Mr. Wallace." Of this 

 skull I have noted that its third molar is comparatively simple, whereas the other specimens of Sus ver- 

 rucosus in the British Museum have it complex. All the other specimens of Sus ven'ucosus catalogued 

 p. 330, Catalogue 1869, as Sus verrucosus, with the exception of no. 1362 d, which was received from 

 Mr. Wallace as Sus vittatus, have been noted by me as having the lacrymal long in relation to its height, 

 and as having complex molars. As, however, Nathusius, .1. c. p. 179, has noted the lacrymal to be short in 

 a specimen obtained by him from Java^ and as, of two skulls figured by Solomon Miiller (Verhandel. 

 tab. 32. figs. 2 and 4), one has the lacrymal short and the other long, it is clear that this species varies 



