3904. j ON TIIK FUIli:ST-l'](! OF OKNTIUL AFRICA, 193 



24. Ckpiialophus melanorubws Gray. 



$ juv. 109. Bilelipi, 10 HI. 



6. 149, 155, 157, 1G4. $. 150, 154. N. Bantabhi, 1800 m. 



J. 76. $.145. Bul)i Town, Biintabivi, 500 m. 



$. GO, GO. BiuitnJni-i, 10 m. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATH XIII. 



Scotoni/cteris bedfordi, p. 187. 



2. On ITtjlochoerus, the For(ist-Pig of Central Afi-ica. 

 By Oldfikli) Thomas, F.R.S., F.Z.S. 



[Received OctoLer 13, 1904.] 

 (Plates XIV. ife XV.*) 



For some years, dating fi-om the discovery of tlie Okapi, it has 

 been known to zoologists that the natives of tlie tSendiki and 

 other Centi-jd African forests had stories to tell about a large pig- 

 like animal, of whose size and ferocity they gave rather highly- 

 ■coloiu'ed accounts. 8uch stories were first brought to Sir H. 

 ■Stanley t dui-ing his Emin relief expedition of 1888-90, and later 

 on to Sir Harry Johnston + (who thought they might possibly refer 

 to a Pigmy Hippopotamus), to Mr. F, J. Jackson, Mr. W. D. 

 Doggett, and othei's. 



More I'ecently Lieut, li. Meinertzhagen, of the East-African 

 Rifles, lieai'ing tales of this Foi-est-Pig, <letermined to secure 

 specimens of it for our National Museum, and it is to his per- 

 sevei-ance and genei-osity that we ai-e indebted foi- the specimens 

 which fo);m the subject of the present paper. 



The following extracts from Lieut. Meinertzhageri's lettei-s to 

 Pi'of. Kay Lankester will show under what (di-cumstances he 

 obtained the specimens here «lesci'ibed : — 



" I was on an expedition neai- Mount Kenya last Februaiy and 

 one of my men, who had been tracking cattle in the bamboos 

 about 8000 ft.), reported liaving killed in the forest a large animal 

 which lie greatly exaggeiuted as to size. I sent liijii back next 

 <la,y to see if he could bring in any of the beast. He found that 

 t^he Wandei'obo had got one and had cut the animal up. He, 

 however, brought back two pieces of skin §, which was un- 

 doubtedly pig-skin, but of no pig with which I was acquainted. 

 The Masai know the animal well and call it ' Elguia.' On moving 



* For explanation oi' the Plates, see p. 199. 



t Cf. .Johnston, in Cornish's ' Living Animals of the World,' i. p. 267 (1902). 



X P. Z. S. 1904, i. p. 228. 



§ " It was a sow, as the natives had left 2 f(Etuses." 



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