OF PREHISTORIC TIMES IN BRITAIN. 275 



millim. inches. 



Posterior part of frontal and sagittal suture 97 = 3'8 



From occipital foramen to vomer 47 = 1"7 



From occipital foramen to palate 72 = 2"85 



Dentigerous part of maxilla 120 = 4'7 



Incisive part of palate 61 = 2 - 4 



Greatest interzygomatic width 140 = 5*5 



Greatest frontal width 88 — 3'5 



Smallest facial width 31 = 1"2 



Intermaxillary width 37 = 1'45 



Least nasal width 2-1 = T95 



Intermolar width 43 = T7 



Interpremolar width 41 = 1'6 



Occipital height 112 = 47 



millim. /( ,, 



Lacrymal orbital border , 22 = -9 compare 1 in Sus verrucosus, 'Rutim. 



Lacrymal malar border 17 = "7 ,, 1'13 



Lacrymal upper border 31 = 1*4 „ 1 -84 



millim. 



Length of S. celebensis, sec. Dr. A." B. Meyer..-. 1160 = 45-67 



Miiller & Schlegel 950 = 37-40 



Length of tail of fif. celebensis, sec. Dr. A. B. Meyer 250 = 9-84 



„ „ Miill. fcSchleg 150 = 59 



Height of S. celebensis, sec. Dr. A. B. Meyer 550-570 = 21-22 



Miiller & Schlegel 560 = 22 



Dr. A. B. Meyer's specimen was more brown than Miiller's and Schlegel' s figure, 

 pi. 28 bis ; the tuft at the angle of the mouth red-brown, and the hair on the nape 

 longer. As to his measurements of S. celebensis, Dr. A. B. Meyer observes that they are 

 taken from a full-grown animal, and, being larger than those of Miiller and Schlegel, 

 Tiring S. celebensis more nearly on to a level with S. verrucosus. Its smaller size suggests 

 the dwarfing action of a confined insular habitat undergone in some of the upheavals or 

 subsidences of Celebes. 



Dr. A. B. Meyer informs me that the young of S. celebensis are striped, in contradic- 

 tion to the suggestion which I (see p. 267, supra), being impressed with the closeness 

 of the affinity between this Sus and S. verrucosus (which Miiller and Schlegel had de- 

 clared not to be striped when young), had thrown out. He informs me also that he 

 has the authority of General von Schierbrant, who has lived thirty years in Java and is 

 a first-rate sportsman, for saying that Miiller and Schlegel (I. c. p. 177) are not correct in 

 what they say is the case with S. verrucosus. If this be so, the claim which S. verrucosus 

 would have had to be considered the parent stock of our improved breed of pigs falls to 

 the ground. On the other hand, I cannot, knowing the great modificatory power which 

 domesticating influences of one kind or other have been proved to possess over the highly 

 plastic porcine organism, and bearing in mind the similarity between the Irish Grey- 

 hound, Pig, and S. verrucosus, agree with Professor Riitimeyer (p. 184, /. c. 1864) in ex- 

 cluding this Sus from consideration when we are speculating as to the parentage of 

 our domestic Pigs. 



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