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The diftereuce iu size between these two skulls was so enormous 

 that Mr. Thomas expressed the opinion that the Hungarian Boar 

 should be distinguished as a diflerent species, which he proposed 

 to call Sus attila. A fine stuffed specimen of the same species, 

 from Volhynia, S. Russia, presented by Count Potocki, had been 

 on exhibition for some years in the Museum, under the old name 

 of Sus scrofa. 



The ditierence between the two species was mainly in size, as 

 would apjiear from the skull-measui-ements given below ; but 

 it might be noticed that both specimens of f'Sus attila were, on 

 the whole, lighter in colour, and had whiter muzzles, than the 

 available specimens of Sus scrofa. No series of skins, however, 

 was available to show how far these colour-difierences were constant. 

 The character of the pelage of iSihS attila was similar to that of 

 S. scrofa in the presence of a thick woolly underfur. The median 

 anterior hoofs in Sus attila were 65 mm. in length, as compared 

 with 48 mm. in 8. scrofa. 



The type locality of S. attila was Kolozsvar ( = Klausenburg), 

 Transylvania, and the species no doubt extended through Russia 

 into Siberia. 



The oth.er names usually placed in the synonyiBy of Sus scrofa — 

 setosus Boddaert, aper Boddaert, ewrojo«?«s Pallas, and celtica ^tvohoi 

 — were all merely suggested alternatives for scrofa, and applied 

 solely to the German Wild Boar, this being the typical form of 

 Linnseus's species *. 



Furthermore, Mr. Thomas pointed out that the Wild Boar of 

 Southern Spain was, on the other hand, so very much smaller 

 than the true Su.s scrofa of Germany that it appeared worthy of 

 a special subspecific name, and he proposed to call it Sus scrofa 

 ba'-ticus. In addition to its small size, the two skins in the British 

 Museum (both of winter specimens) were remarkable for having 

 no woolly underfur whatever, that of Sus scrofa scrofa being thick 

 and abundant. 



A female specimen of this small Wild Bt)ar, from Seville, had 

 been presented to the Museum by the late Lord Lilford in 1895, 

 and a male skin and skull, and a separate skull, from the Goto 

 Douana, by Mr. Abel Chapman in 1908. 



Finally, the Wild Boar of Northern Spain was intermediate in 

 size between S. s. hceticus and ^S'. s. scrofa, and possessed, at least 

 in winter, a woolly underfur as in ordinary Wild Boars. Of this 

 form a fine male and female had been obtained for the Museum 

 by the Rev. Saturio Gonzalez at Quintanar de la Sierra near 

 Burgos. 



Mr. Thomas proposed to call this race, whose skull-measure- 

 ments were included in the table below, Sus scrofa castilianus. 



The following were the skull-dimensions in millimetres of (1) 

 the type of S. attila, an adult but not old male, (2) of a rather 



* Cf. Thomas, P.Z. S. ItHl, p. 110. 



