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Gmelin, and the S. Larvatus or Masked Boar of Daniel, 

 which our author refers to two different subgenera, the 

 latter to the Common Hogs, and the former to Phaco-choeres 

 or Warted Hogs, on which we shall now say only a word 

 or two. We have engraved a figure of the ^Ethiopian Boar 

 from a specimen in the Museum of the Missionary Society, 

 which accords so much in its dried state with the speci- 

 men in the Museum before mentioned, and which is re- 

 ferred to Daniel's species, as to have given rise to the 

 hesitation we have stated on the subject. It may be, in- 

 deed, that the specimen in the British Museum should be 

 referred to the African species of Gmelin. 



The other species of Phaco-choeres, or the Cape Verd 

 Boar, the Sus Africanus of the text, is thus described in 

 Gmelin : Sus Africanus, dentibus primoribus duobus, cor- 

 pus setis longissimis tenuibus tectum, caput elongatum, 

 nasus gracilis, dentes canini lati, eboris duritiae, superiores 

 crassi, obliqui, truncati, molaris in utroque maxilla utrin- 

 que vj. Anteriores maximi, maxilla superiores inferiori 

 multo longior; auriculae angustae, erectae, acuminata?, apice 

 telis longissimis barbatae, cauda gracilis, floccosa, primum 

 crurium articulum attingens. There is a fragment only of 

 this species in Paris. 



We have, not without hesitation, engraved from a draw- 

 ing by Howitt of certainly a specimen of this species, 

 though a very old and ill-stuffed one, which was lately in 

 Riddelfs Museum, and came from the Leverian. The 

 principal ground of our hesitation has been from the 

 indistinct delineation of the teeth, or rather from the 

 appearance of two canine teeth in the lower jaw. The 

 molares anteriores maximi of Gmelin's description may, 

 indeed, especially when the shrinking consequent on long 

 keeping a stuffed specimen is considered, account for the 

 appearance the animal exhibited, which the artist has 

 copied without thorough investigation. As, however, there 



