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and also in Japan, there are other Wild Pigs which belong to the 

 same genus as the European species, and we may now pass on to 

 the Babirusa (Fig. 191), which is placed in a genus of its own. 



BABIRUSA. — This species has a naked skin of a dark ashy-grey 

 colour, but is distinguished by the remarkable development of the 

 tusks possessed by the male, there being two pairs of these, called 

 the upper and lower tusks respectively. They curve upwards like 

 those of the ordinary Wild Pig, but "instead of protruding from 

 the margins of the jaws, arise close together near the middle line of 

 the face, and thence, after being directed upwards for a short 

 distance, sweep backwards, frequently coming into contact with 

 the surface of the forehead, and are then finally directed forwards 

 towards the tip." The lower tusks are somewhat similar, but are 

 not often curved so strongly. The effect on first seeing these, and 

 having no knowledge of the animal, is that it has a malformation. 

 This species inhabits Celebes and Boru, and its name — Babirusa — 

 given to it by the Malays, means Pig-Deer, and sufficiently indicates 

 the extraordinary tusks which it bears. 



WART HOGS.— The Wart Hogs (Fig. 194) are African beasts, 

 there being two closely allied species, and whilst the Red Bush-Pig 

 (see Fig. 195) is stated to be the handsomest member of the Swine 

 family, we are told that among the Wart Hogs there are forthcoming 

 the most hideous-looking representatives not only of the group to 

 which these beasts belong, but also of all the species included among 

 the Ungulates. 



These Wart Hogs are so called because of the large heads which, 

 whilst flat and broad on the lower part of the face, have tremendous 

 warty excrescences beneath each eye, and also two smaller ones 

 between the eye and the tusk. Both sexes have enormous tusks, the 

 muzzle of the head is very elongated and reminds one of the 

 Hippopotamus, and the eyes in consequence are placed in a backward 

 position. 



GIANT BUSH-PIG.— Mr. Radclyffe Dugmore tells in his Camera 

 Adventures in the African Wilds, how one day he came across, in 

 a thickly-wooded region, an animal which he took to be a young 

 Rhinoceros, but a second look proved it to be an animal which he had 

 not met before. He says, "I was scarcely ready when it looked up, 

 and as I pressed the shutter release I realized that the animal I was 

 photographing was none other than the Forest Hog or Giant Bush- 

 Pig (Hylochoerus meinertshageni), one of the rarest animals in East 



