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together. It is a curious circumstance that the young of all 
the wild kinds of Pigs (so far as yet is known) present a 
uniform coloration, being dark brown with longitudinal stripes of 
a paler colour, a character which completely disappears after the 
first few months. On the other hand, this peculiar marking is 
rarely seen in domestic Pigs in any part of the world, although it 
has been occasionally observed. It is stated by Darwin that the 
Pigs which have run wild in Jamaica and the semiferal Pigs of New 
Granada have resumed this aboriginal character, and produce longi- 
tudinally striped young; these must of course be the descendants 
of domestic animals introduced from Europe since the Spanish 
Fic. 106.—Wild Boar and Young. 
conquest, as before that time there were no true Pigs in the New 
World. Another character by which the European domestic Pig 
differs from any of the wild species is the concave outline of the 
frontal region of the skull, a form still retained by the feral Pigs 
in New Zealand. ; 
B.—The diminutive Pig of the Nipal, Terai, and Bhutan, Sus 
salvanius, has been separated from the rest by Hodgson under the 
generic name of Porcula, but all the alleged distinctive characters 
prove on more careful investigation to have little real value. Owing 
to its retired habits and power of concealment under bushes and 
long grass in the depths of the great Sal Forest, which is its 
principal home, very little has been known of this curious little 
animal, scarcely larger than a hare. The acquisition of living 
