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MISCELLANEOUS. 
Notes on the Species of Wart- Hog (or Phacochcerus). 
By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. 
Mr. ScraTER, in the * Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1869, 
p. 276, mentions, as added to the Menagerie :—* An ZElian's wart- 
hog (Phacocherus Ailiani), which had been captured near Zoulla, on 
whiskers are very long and well developed. : 
* One other specimen o ian's wart-hog had been previously 
living in the menagerie—namely, an adult female from Ashantee, 
presented to the Society by H.M. the Queen in 1861. 
“Mr. Sclater exhibited drawings illustrative of the external differ- 
ences between these two wart-hogs, and also made remarks upon 
their well-known cranial and dental differences, which had been 
fully described by F. Cuvier, Van der Hoeven, and Owen, but which 
had not prevented Dr. Gray from uniting the two species in his 
recent catalogue of these animals." 
is paper is illustrated by two woodcuts :—one the head of a male 
wart-hog with a large blunt nose, large canines, a large wart under 
the eyes, and very hairy ears, named P. ethiopicus; the other 
evidently the head of the female wart-hog figured on plate 20, 
conical, with a small nose, very small canines, a slight longitudinal 
ridge under the eye, and small, nearly naked ears—called P. 
AANU. : F 
Phacochærus Æliani was first described by Dr. Rüppell, in his 
* Zoological Atlas, p. 61, tab. 65. If any one will take the trouble 
to turn to that description and figure, which is of a male, they 
find it exactly agrees with the figure which Mr. Sclater has given of 
. æthiopicus, especially in having the ears well covered with hairs, 
nal specimen received from Dr. Rüppell, which is now in the British 
Museum (this specimen, by-the-by, must have been overlooked by 
Mr.Blanford when he made his remarks on this animal), specimens 
from South Africa, and skulls from various parts of Africa ; and I 
found that the various characters which had been proposed by F. 
Cuvier, Rüppell, and Sundevall to separate the wart-hogs of different 
