The Wart-Hoi 



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toes are comparatively small and not applied to the ground in walking ; 

 and the hinder cheek-teeth, of which the last on each side of the lower 

 jaw is elongated, do not show a distinct trefoil pattern on their grinding 

 surfaces. Bristly hair generally more or less completely clothes the body. 



The most peculiarly Ethiopian representative of the family is the 

 wart-hog {Phac'ochcerus eethiopicus) , an animal of a remarkably forbidding and 

 ugly appearance, characterised by the huge head, of which the lower 

 extremity is much expanded, and the sides of which are furnished with 

 two pairs of warty protuberances between the eyes and the tusks, the 

 uppermost pair being considerably the larger. The huge upper tusks, 

 which are coated with enamel only at the tips, are much longer than 

 the lower pair, and the last cheek-tooth in each jaw, which in old age 

 is often the only one remaining in addition to the tusks, is characterised 

 by its peculiarly complex structure, consisting of a number of closely 

 packed, slender, cylindrical columns united by cement. 



It is frequently considered that there are two species of wart-hog, but it 

 seems probable that the second (P. afrkanus) is, at most, nothing more 

 than a north-eastern race of the first. 



The Southern Wart-Hog [Phacochcerus athiopicus ty picas) 



Vlakte-vark of the Boers ; Indaigazana of the Swazis and Zulus (some- 

 times Indhlovudawani of the latter) ; KolobP of the Bechuanas ; 

 Ikulubi of Transvaal Basuto ; Njiri of Lower Zambesi Natives. 



There are few more hideous creatures on the earth than this African 

 representative of the Suida. 



The members of the genus are characterised by their enormous heads, 

 the broad, flat lower portion of the face, great length of muzzle, the 



1 Sometimes Kolobi on aaga.—Eo. 



