5 16 Great and Small Game of Africa 



The water-chevrotain is an inhabitant of the forest districts of West 

 Africa ; its range being definitely known to extend from the Congo to 

 Liberia, Ashanti, and Togo, although how far it reaches into the interior 

 has not yet been ascertained. Accounts of its mode of life are very 

 meagre ; but from the little that is known it appears to frequent the thick 

 cover on the banks of rivers, and in general habits to resemble a pig. 

 A female in the Zoological Gardens produced a single offspring in 

 January 1883. John Marriott. 



THE WART-HOG 

 Family SuiDjE. Genus Phacochcerus 



As previously mentioned, the three families of the Bovida, Giraffida, 

 and Cervida agree in the common feature of having crescent-shaped lobes to 

 their cheek-teeth, and in lacking upper front teeth. And it may be added 

 that they exhibit a further mutual resemblance in the complexity of their 

 stomachs, in the fusion of the two bones of the lower part of each leg to 

 form a cannon-bone, and likewise in the almost universal presence of 

 appendages of some kind on the heads of at least the males. In all these 

 features the pigs and hippopotami differ from the above type, having irregular 

 warty or trefoil-shaped tubercles on the hinder cheek-teeth, well-developed 

 upper front or incisor teeth, comparatively simple stomachs, no cannon- 

 bones in the lower part of the limbs, and no horn-like appendages on the 

 head. As they also differ, although in a less striking manner, from the 

 chevrotains, the two families are brigaded in a group by themselves, 

 technically termed the Suina. 



The pigs themselves are easily distinguished by the long head, the 

 truncated, mobile snout terminating in a naked disc, in which are pierced 

 the nostrils, and the upward curvature of the tusks of the upper jaw, 

 against the sides of which the lower tusks bite. In the feet the lateral 



