1868.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE SlID-E. 39 



and others, which has very short thin legs, with the belly almost to 

 the ground. I have not seen this variety. 



A young boar from Algiers. Kusty brown ; hair black, with long 

 rusty ends. Nose, orbits, edge of ears, and a longitudinal streak on 

 the whiskers black. Chest nakedish. No warts on the cheeks. 

 Ears moderate, densely hairy. 



Hab. Algiers {B.M. ; Henry Christy, Esq.). 



Skull in the British Museum (no. 713 r). This animal lived 

 some time in the Society's Gardens. The skull is short, with a 

 flat forehead and nose like a Domestic Pig. It is, in many re- 

 spects, very like the Cochon de Siam of Buflfon, 



(2) Pore noir a jamb e courte, F. Cuv. 



Sus scrofa domestica mei-idionalis , Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 422. 



Hab. Italy. 



Black. Ears small, nearly erect. A fold over the eyebrow. 



Var. sinensis. 



Sus scrofa sinensis, Brisson, R. A. 108; Erxl. 181. 

 Chinesische schwein, Linn. West Goth. 62. 



Small. Black, white, or variegated. Back nakedish. Body very 

 large ; legs very short and thin. 



A short-headed, swollen-cheeked, full-bodied Pig, with short thin 

 legs, like our prize Pigs, was well known to the ancient Greeks. 

 There are several representations in marble of such Pigs in the 

 British Museum that were procured from the Temenos of Demeter 

 Cnidus, and are inscribed " Pig sacred to Persephone," by Captain 

 Spratt. These models chiefly differ from the form of the English 

 prize Pig in the back being furnished with a well-marked, high 

 compressed crest of bristles from the crown of the head to the tail. 

 Similar Pigs are represented on Greek silver coins. 



Long-legged, flat-sided sows with their young are represented 

 among the reeds on the Assyrian Marbles in the Museum Collection. 



The Pigs naturalized in Para and Pernambuco are black, like the 

 Berkshire or Chinese breeds, with very thin legs, short nose, and 

 thick cheeks. They were introduced from Portugal. In Rio they 

 send the Pigs out in the marshy places to destroy the snakes before 

 the negroes are turned in to cultivate the land ; they eat the snakes 

 greedily, and are said never to be injured by the bite of a snake, 

 however poisonous. 



Var. Wattled, with a cylindrical wattle on the hinder corner of 

 the lower jaw on one or both sides. 



Hab. Irish Greyhound Pig {Richardson on Pigs, 30). 



Var. Solid-hoofed Pigs, with two front toes united into one hoof. 

 Sus scrofa inonongulus, Linn. Anim. v. 461. 

 S. ungulis solidis, Plini. H. N. x. 146. 

 S. scrofa mononyx, Fischer, Syn. 423. 



Solid-hoofed soio, Struthers, Edinb. N. P. Journ. 1863; Blainv. 

 Oiteogr. p. 128 ; Darwin, Dom. Anim. ii. 7.t. 



