280 PROF. ROLLESTON ON THE DOMESTIC PIG 



tween its male and female representatives (see for similar view as regards our own species 

 ' Journal of Anthropological Institute,' vol. ii. 1875, p. 122). I am not inclined to with- 

 draw from this view even after reading Prof. Riitimeyer's and Herr J.W. Schutz's memoirs. 

 For in the former of these I find (p. 151) that the five skulls used for description are 

 acknowledged to he skulls of sows, and four of them to have heen skulls of old sows, and 

 the measurements given at p. 163 have been taken exclusively from skulls confessedly 

 female (see p. 161). And I learn from Herr Schutz's essay (p. 44) that Steenstrup (cit, 

 Wiegmann's Archiv, xxvii. n. 112) had distinctly stated that the " Torf schwein " was (as 

 I had hinted without any knowledge of his views, see p. 254, supra) simply the female repre- 

 sentative of 8. scrofa, rav.ferus. Professor Eutimeyer had not at the time of writing his 

 'Fauna der Pfahlbauten,' 1861 (see p. 33), a single perfect skull of the " Torfschwein " 

 available to his comparison ; the almost perfect skulls treated of in his memoir of 1864 (see 

 p. 150) have caused him to modify the view put forward at p. 190 of the earlier work, 

 and in the later one he allows (pp. 158-160) that, both in the matter of the length of the 

 lacrymal and in the absence of widening of the palate anteriorly, the S. scrofa, var. 

 palustris, was more nearly affined to S. scrofa, var. ferns, than to S. indicus. To show this 

 was the reason for giving a great number of my measurements, supra, pp. 269-272. I take 

 this opportunity of saying that the very small breed of the Scottish highlands and islands, 

 with suberect ears, usually of a dusky brown colour, with an arched back and coarse 

 bristles along the neck and spine, spoken of by Professor Low in his ' Domesticated 

 Animals of the British Islands,' p. 429, may perhaps be such a breed as Professor Buti- 

 meyer suggests, in his later paper (p. 168, see also p. 148), should be looked for in 

 Eastern Europe or "Western Asia or in fossil forms*. 



Mr. G-. E. Dobson, E.L.S., in a letter to me of date Jan. 15, 1877, informs me that the 

 young of the Pig of the Andaman and of the Nicobar Islands are striped. 



The E,ev. C. Spencer Bubb informs me that the young Borneo domestic Pig is some- 

 times striped and sometimes not, whilst the young Chinese Pig is never striped ; and he 

 adds that there are certainly two domestic breeds in Borneo. 



* I suspect that latitude has more to do with the production of such varieties than longitude, and still operating 

 causes more than geological. One of these causes is suggested by the words of Varro, ii. 4. 13, cited by Dureau de la 

 Halle, ' Economie politique des Romains,' ii. p. 149 : "Porcique nati hieme, fiunt exiles propter frigora." 



