408 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



There is a specimen in the British Museum under the 

 name of Sus Larvatus, which, when compared with the 

 iigure in Daniel's African Scenery, to which Cuvier refers 

 for the type of Sus Larvatus, is considerably different, so 

 much so, as to render the identity of the two doubtful ; but 

 the dried specimen in the Museum may, in its fresh state, 

 have had the immense protuberance observable in Daniel's 

 figure. 



Had not the Baron himself adverted to the osteological 

 characters which distinguish his division, Phaco-choeres, 

 from the Common Swine, and placed the Sus Larvatus 

 among the latter, apparently from actual observation, we 

 should have strongly inclined to the opinion that the 

 animal of Daniel's was referrible to the S. iEthiopicus of 

 Gmelin. 



But assuming the distinctness of the Asiatic species, or 

 Sus Larvatus, may it not then be the Leucrocuta of Pliny, 

 lib. viii. cap. xxi. Leucrocutam pernicissimam ferocem 

 asini fere magnitudine cruribus cervinis collo cauda pectore 

 leonis capite melium biscula ungula ore ad aures usque 

 recesso dentium loco osse perpetuo. Hancce ferocem hu- 

 manus voce tradunt imitari. 



Babyroussa. {Sus Babyrussa.) Though this animal was 

 not unknown to the ancients, and has been frequently 

 noticed by the moderns, it has never been brought into 

 Europe, and its head alone is to be found in the cabinets 

 of Natural History ; its character and habits have not 

 been described. 



Pliny evidently mentions it in his eighth book, chap. lii. 

 when he says that Wild Boars are found in India, which 

 have two horns on the forehead, similar to those of a heifer, 

 and tusks like those of the common Wild Boars. 



iElian mentions one under the name of r&rqacKsqcos- (four- 

 horned) ; and Cosmes, the solitary, who lived in the com- 

 mencement of the sixth century, in his description of the 



