362 DB. C. I. FOESYTH MA JOB ON THE [Mar. 16, 



Society, and published in the ' Proceedings ' for 1869, pp. 56, 57), 

 to put some of the facts under discussion in their true hght 

 and to add some interesting particulars. Eeinhardt draws atten- 

 tion to the fact that Prince Maurice of Nassau, in whose service 

 Marcgrave was, kept animals, brought over from many countries, 

 at his country-seat near Eecife (Pernambuco), and that Marcgrave 

 describes and sketches also several African Monkeys seen in 

 Brazil (of which it is expressly stated that they came from the 

 Guinea Coast). " He " (Marcgrave) " had certainly never thought 

 of saying that his Pig was a domestic animal, but only that in 

 Brazil be had seen such a Pig, brought thither from Africa, and 

 being quite tame — that is to say, doing no harm, but being of a 

 placid, inoffensive nature." Eeinhardt further on quotes from a 

 Danish author, Monrad S who describes the " Bed and Black Boars " 

 on the Gold Coast as being not fierce at all, their hunting being 

 without danger, &c. 



I wish to add to Reinhardt's remarks some observations of my 

 own bearing on the subject. No mention is made by Marcgrave 

 of the cartilaginous tuberosities above the upper canines in the 

 male, and neither does bis otherwise good, though somewhat rough, 

 woodcut show anything of the sort ; apparently he had before 

 him a female or a young male (perhaps he had seen only a single 

 specimen) ; this circumstance, too, goes a great way to show that, 

 in his time at least, the Pig m as not reared in Brazil, and it w"ould 

 give a further illvistration to his calling it '■'■plane cicur." 



Schvveinfurth^ when mentioning the Wild Boar of the Mon- 

 buttu, which he considers to be the " Potamoclioerus penicillatus" 

 says that they are tameable up to a certain extent (" einen gewissen 

 Grad von Zahmbarkeit an den Tag legen ") ; King Munsa kept 

 a number of them, halt: wild, in a sort of game-preserve near his 

 residence. I believe the experiences M'ith the West-African 

 Potamochoerus in the Zoological Gardens are to the same efi'ect. 



The individual, or the individuals, seen by Marcgrave were 

 apparently the first brought over to Brazil ; but, from what later 

 authors say, we might be inclined to infer that after his time the 

 species was really reared in America. Erxleben (1777), whom 

 Eeinhardt quotes, was not the first to say that the Guinea Hog 

 was found in great numbers in Brazil (" ubi bodie copiosissimus "). 

 The same statement had been already made by Hill (1752), Patrick 

 Browne (1756) — both speaking of America generally, — as well as 

 by Pallas (1766) and Buflfon (1767) ; but from what these authors 

 say, it seems not unlikely that a confusion was made with pigs 

 introduced from Asia, an error against which P. L. S. Miiller 

 (Vollst. Natursystem) cautioned us as long ago as 1773. 



As to the introduction of the Pencilled Hog into England for 



^ H. C. Monrad. Bidrag til en Skildringaf'Guinea-kysten og dens Indb3ggere 

 og til en Beskrivelse over de darske Colonier paa denne kjst, sauik'de viuder 

 mit Ophold i Afrika i Aarene 1805 til 1809 .... Med en Fortale af C. Molbecb: 

 Kjobeuhavn, 1822. 8°. 



^ Im Herzen von Afrika, ii. pp. 83, 532 (1874). 



