?44 CATALOGUE 01? UNGULATES 



Size very small, shoulder-height about llj inches; no 

 distinct spinal crest ; ears small and bare ; tail very short 

 (Ij inches); no woolly under-fur; general colour brown or 

 blackish brown ; young striped ; last upper molar in jaw 

 very short, its length being considerably less than that of 

 the two teeth immediately in front. 



53. 8. 16. 16 (54 6. 3. 7 [1077, r/]). Skull, foot-bones, and 

 mounted skin. Sikhim Tarai. 



Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq., 1853. 



53. 8. 16. 17. Young skull and skin. Same locality. 



Same history. 



1077, 6. Skull. Same locality. Same donor. 



58. 6. 24-. 71 (1077, d). Skull and skin, the latter 

 mounted. Same locality. Same donor, 1858. 



58.6.24 72(1077,0). Skeleton. Same locality. Type; 

 skull figured by Hodgson, Joiirn. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xvi, 

 pi. xxiii. Same history. 



79. 11. 21. 666 (1077,/). Skin, mounted, and skull. 

 Same locality ; collected by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



Transferred from India Museveni, 1879. 



79. 11. 21. 667. Skin, young, mounted. Same locality 

 and collector. Same history. 



II. Genus BABIRUSSA. 



Babirussa, Rafinesque, Analyse de Nature, p. 56, 1815 ; Lesson, Man. 



Mainm. p. 337, 1827 ; Qray, Hand-List Tldck-skinned Mamm. 



Brit. Mus. p. 67, 1873. 

 Babiroussus, Qray, Med. Bepos. vol. xv, p. 306, 1821. 

 Babiroussa, -F. Cuvier, Dents Mamm. p. 257, 1825. 

 BabjTUSsa, Burnett, Quart. Journ. Sci. Lit. vol. xxviii, p. 352, 1830. 

 Porcus, Wagler, Nat. Syst. Ampliih. p. 17, 1830 ; Stelilin, Abh. scliweiz. 



pal. Ges. vol. xxvii, Appendix, 1900. 

 Babirusa, Lesson, ^Nouv. Tabl. Regne Anim., Mamm. p. 162, 1842; 



Deninger, Ber. nai. Ges. Freiburg, vol. xviii, p. 1, 1910. 



Dentition : i. f, c. \, p. |-, m. -| = 34 ; molars, especially 

 the last, simpler than in Sus ; canines (fig. 51) long, slender, 

 recurved, growing from persistent pulps, and destitute of 

 enamel, those of the upper jaw piercing the skin of the face 

 some distance in advance of the eyes, and not wearing 

 against the lower pair; in female canines quite small. 



