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keep together until they are about a year and a half old and weigh some 

 1 20 lbs. apiece. An ordinary sounder of hog would be one three-year- 

 old boar of 140 to 160 lbs. in weight, one sow of about 140 lbs., and six 

 or seven young pigs of about 40 or 50 lbs. apiece. Very often, when the 

 young sounder have attained about 100 lbs. each, they herd together and 

 quit the parents. 



The boars over three years old are very often found associating by 

 themselves, and going to the sounder only at rutting time. If some of 

 these big boars happen to meet near a female, then a tremendous fight 

 takes place, as I more than once saw. 



Old males are nearly always found alone, or with a younger male. 

 Very often when five or six years old the hair of these old hogs is grayish 

 or brownish in hue. They keep preferably to the vicinity of water and 

 mud, and often spend the day in these damp places, where very dense and 

 thorny bushes are found growing beneath the larger forest trees. 



About March nearly all the boars are found near water. In hot 

 weather they often betake themselves up into the hills in search of shady 

 and cool ravines. In September they come down again. The females 

 occasionally breed when a year old, but as a rule not until they have 

 nearly attained two years. The food of Algerian wild swine is exactly 

 like that of the European boar, and they are especially fond of the acorn of 

 evergreen oaks or cork-trees. Vicomte Edmond de Poncins. 



The Senaar Boar (Sus senaarensis) 



Quadruk of Arabs 



Very little is known of this wild pig, and even among the records of 



scientific natural history, references to it are of the briefest. It is described 



in Gray's Catalogue of Carnwora, etc., 1869, p. 338, as having the fur dense, 



bristly, dull olive black, varied with yellow. Ears moderate, densely 



