SnS INDICFS. 



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Most of the animals of this family (unlike most of the Pachjdermata and 

 ruminants) are very prolific. They are foimd in the warm and temperate 

 portions of both continents. 



Gen. Stjs, Linnaeus. 



Char. — Incisors - or - ; the lower ones procumbent or slanting for- 

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wards ; canines large in the males, exsert, directed upwards ; molars six or 

 seven on each side in both jaws, tuberculate ; all the feet with 4 toes, which 

 are enclosed in separate hoofs. 



315. Sus indicus. 



ScHiNz. — S. cristatus, Wagner. — S. scropha, Linnaeus.— Blyth, Cat. 

 p. 139. — Elliot, Cat. 49. — S. vittatus, Sohlegbl. — Sur or Suwar, H ; 

 sometimes Bura janwar, or Bad j&nwar, H., i. e., the bad or unclean 

 animal. — Dukar, Mahr. — Handi, Mikka, and Jewadi, Can. — Pandi, Tel. 

 — Paddi, of Gonds and Mharis. — Kis of Bhagalpore hill tribes. 



The Indian Wild Boae. 



Descr. — Head longer and more pointed than in the European boar ; 

 the plane of the forehead straight and not concave ; ears small and 

 pointed ; tail more tufted ; the malar beard well marked. 



Length of a tolerably fine boar, 5 feet to root of tail which is 1 foot. 

 Stands a little over 30 inches high at the shoulder. 



"The color of the adult," says Mr. Blyth, "is brownish-black, scantily 

 covered with black hairs. Besides the black recumbent mane of the 

 occiput and back, and the whiskers and the bristles above and below the 

 eyes, there is a bundle of long black bristles on the throat, and the hairs 

 of the throat and chest are reversed. The tail is scantily covered with 

 short hairs, and the apex compressed, with long lateral bristles lUce those of 

 the elephant, arranged Uke the rings of an arrow. The young is more 

 hairy, of a tawny or fulvous color and striped with dark brown. The hairs 

 of the throat, chest, abdomen and elbows (in the two latter places very 

 long) are black on the basal and white at the apical half." 



Mr. Blyth, in his Catalogue, has given the Indian boar only as a variety of 

 the common wild boar of Europe, biit he allows it to be a well marked race, 



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