5 1 8 Great and Small Game of Africa 



presence of two large warty protuberances on each side of the face — one 

 below each eye and another between this one and the snout, — and by the 

 fact that the upper canine tusks — which are of great size — are longer than 

 the lower ones, whereas in the true pigs exactly the reverse obtains. The 

 upper tusks of a growing animal are enamel-tipped, but this wears off in 

 the adults. The lower tusks, which have excessively sharp cutting edges, 

 do not wear against the whole surface of the upper ones, but against the 

 inferior portion only, hence the great size attained by the latter. A tusk 

 measuring 9 inches outside the jaw is a good one, and over the average, 

 but an abnormal pair of 27 x 26 inches is recorded.' Some years ago I 

 saw a pair of 1 5 inches, and last year I had the good fortune to secure an 

 old boar carrying 1 5^ x 15 inches tusks. Young wart-hogs have thirty- 

 four teeth, but many of these disappear in the adults, which have neither 

 incisors nor anterior cheek-teeth. The four molars which remain, however, 

 are of great length from back to front, but narrow. The ears are small 

 and pointed, tail long and tufted, body barrel-like, and almost naked. There 

 is a gorget of whitish bristles round the chest, and the lower limbs are 

 thinly haired ; while a mane of coarse stiff bristles covers the upper part of 

 the neck and the back as far as the root of the tail, being longest on the 

 shoulders. The general colour is brownish-gray with a rufous tint in some 

 individuals. A full-grown boar stands from 27^ to 29 inches at the 

 shoulder, but I have recorded three of 31 inches and one of 3 1 -i inches. 

 The wart-hogs I met with in Portuguese Northern Zambesia, south-east of 

 Tete, and in the Mozambique province invariably gave smaller measure- 

 ments, none being over 27 inches. Young wart-hogs are uniformly 

 coloured, usually reddish-brown. 



The range of the wart-hog is more limited than that of the bush-pig, 

 the animal never having been known — so far as I am aware — south of the 



1 Records of Big Game, by Rowland Ward. These were from an Abyssinian wart-hog, and came 

 trnin Aniieslcv Bay. — Ed. 



