244 suiDiE. 



This genus, it will be remarked, makes an approach to the American 

 peccaries, in the non-exserted canines, the short tail, and the small fourth 

 toe. 



216. Porculia salvania. 



Hodgson.— J. A. S., XVI. 423, and XVIII. 476.— Horsfibld, P. Z. 

 S. 1853, pi. 37. — Sano banel, Nepal. — Chota suwar, H. 



The Pigmy Hog. 



Descr. — Blackish-brown, slightly and irregularly shaded with sordid 

 amber ; iris hazel ; nude-skin, dirty flesh color ; hoofs glossy brown. 



Length, snout to vent 26 inches ; tail little more than 1 ; height 10 ; 

 weight 7 to 10 !bs., rarely 12 lbs. 



There is no mane, but the general pelage is ample, and there is a 

 mystaceal tuft. The false molars are compressed, and the face is propor- 

 tionally less long than in Sus. The female has only 6 mammae, and the 

 tail is not so long as the hair of the rump. It wants the normal nasal 

 bones of Sus. The stomach is narrower and the orifices more terminal ; 

 it has also a smaller coecum and shorter intestines. 



■ The pigmy hog is found in the Nepal and Sikim Terai, probably extending 

 into Assam and Bhotan, but it is rare and with difficulty procurable. Mr. 

 Hodgson had long heard of its existence before he got a single specimen. 

 It is exclusively confined to the deep recesses of the primEeval forests. 

 The full grown males live constantly with the herd, which consists of from 

 five to twenty individuals, and are its habitual and resolute defenders against 

 harm. They eat roots, bulbs, &c., but also birds' eggs, insects, and rep- 

 tiles. The female has a litter of three to four young ones. 



The above account is taken entirely from Mr. Hodgson's descriptions. 

 I endeavoured in vain to procure a specimen from the Sikim Terai whilst 

 at Darjeeltng. 



The babyroussa (Sus bdbyrussa), remarkable for its long slender, curved 

 tusks, is found in Malayana, and Sus papuensis is from new Guinea. A 

 peculiar species exists in Africa and Madagascar, Sus larvatus, forming the 

 genus PotamochcBi'us of P. Cuvier; and the same region produces the 

 curious wart-hogs, Phasoochcems, P. Cuvier, with huge tusks, an immense 

 head, with a thick fleshy lobe hanging from their cheeks. Their molars 

 are renewed and succeed one another'from behind as those of elephants do. 



The peccaries, Dicotyles, Cuvier, represent this family in America. 



