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animals of India, treating of the x,oigsXa<po<r or Swine-deer, 

 states that he had both seen and eaten of that animal. 

 Valentin alone has entered into some details concerning 

 this curious species. 



The forms of the Babyroussa are not so clumsy as those 

 of the other species of this genus ; but it seems perfect 

 exaggeration to compare it to the stag in lightness. There 

 is an entire affinity between it and the other Hogs. It has 

 their heaviness and peculiarity of gait ; like them it has 

 the thick neck, the head terminated by a snout, and small 

 eyes. Its limbs are a little more elevated, and the neck 

 somewhat longer. The head is likewise more narrow, and 

 the long tusks of the male give it a very peculiar phy- 

 siognomy. 



The general colour of this animal is a reddish-ashen. 

 The hairs are short and woolly, but a few long silken ones 

 are observed to escape from among the others. Its skin is 

 thin, and not covered underneath with a coat of lard. Its 

 scent is very fine, and the flesh has a very agreeable taste. 

 The voice exactly resembles the grunting of a Pig. It 

 feeds on herbs and leaves, and Valentin asserts that it 

 does not root, which, however, appears doubtful. 



The Babyroussas, when hunted, throw themselves into 

 the sea, being excellent swimmers. They thus pass in the 

 Indian Archipelago from one island to another. They are 

 easily tamed, and on this subject we may remark, that the 

 extent of brain in a Babyroussa is nearly double that of 

 the brain of the Wild Boar ; but the head of the latter is 

 greater by the extent of the frontal and occipital sinuses. 

 We have annexed a figure of this animal from Major 

 Smith's collection, and another of the skull from a speci- 

 men in the British Museum, which has some of the skin 

 remaining upon it. 



We have already ventured on an observation relative 

 to the possible identity between the S. iEthiopicus of 



