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Great and Small Game of Africa 



pilose; head without any warts. Habitat.- — North Africa, Senaar, 

 Kordofan, Soudan. This is apparently a true Sus. Now that the Soudan 

 regions are to be opened to the world again, we may be able to find out 

 more about this animal and its habits. Possibly it may turn out to be 

 only a sub-species of Sus scrofa, the common wild boar of North Africa and 

 Europe. H A Bryden . 



Common Bush-Pig {Sus chceropotamus typicus) 

 Bosch-Vark of the Boers ; Ingulubi of the Zulus and Swazis 

 Abundant though these animals are throughout the forested districts of 

 South-East Africa, few sportsmen have given any information concerning 

 their habits, and I am convinced that few have any idea what grand 

 sporting beasts they are. They vary much in size and colour in different 

 parts of the country. Amongst the foothills of the Eastern Transvaal and 

 in Swaziland they attain their maximum size, a full-grown boar standing 

 2 feet 4 inches to 2 feet 7 inches at the shoulder, and a sow 25 inches to 

 26 inches, the average weight of the former being from 150 lbs. to 170 

 lbs. Sometimes, however, real monsters are met with, and amongst the 

 scores that have fallen to my rifle and assegai there have been not a few 

 such. The largest I ever shot was 5 feet 3 inches in total length over all, 

 2 feet 10 inches in vertical shoulder height ; weight 235 lbs. ; his tusks 

 were 4! inches in iength. In the Cape Colony 27 inches to 28 inches is 

 the maximum height attained, while in Portuguese East Africa and the 

 territories north of the Zambesi 26 inches is rarely beaten. Their usual 

 colour is brownish-red, face and mane grizzled, but there is scarcely any 

 combination of blackish-brown, brown, red, and white that I have not 

 seen. Mottled brown and white, or rather pale gray, is very common, and 

 I once shot a huge old boar which was of a gray so pale all over the body 

 as to appear white at a distance. North of the Zambesi I have not yet 



