SETIFEEA. 325 



Suborder V. SETIFERA. 



The nose truncated, with a bony button on the crest over 

 the nostrils, used, for grubbing up roots. The toes in tri- 

 angular hoofs in pairs ; front pair large, posterior pair not 

 reachiag the ground; the outer one sometimes Tranting. 

 Cutting-teeth in each jaw normal, subequal; canines of male 

 recurved. 



Sua, JUnn. ; Cuvier. 



Setifera, Illiger, Prodr. 1811. 



SuidsB, Bonap. Prodr. 8yst. Mastol. 



Pachydermata flssipeda, Latr. Rig. Anim. p. 596, 1830. 



Setigera, Fit%. Sitz. Akad. Wiss. 1864. 



Paohyderma paridigitata, Cuvier, Oss. Foss. ; JBurmeister, 1840. 



Ungulata isodactyla seu artiodactyla, Owen, Odont. 



The distribution of Swiue into species and the species into genera 

 and families is attended with considerable difficulty ; this probably 

 arises from three peciiliarities of the group : — 



1. That most of the wild or presumed wild species are easily re- 

 duced to a domestic or semidomestic condition. 



2. That the domestic breeds return to their wild condition, even 

 in countries situated far away from their native habitats, and that, 

 under favourable circumstances, the newly enfranchised animals are 

 able to hold their own against the native and colonial cultivators. 



3. That the domestic, and possibly the wUd species have a great 

 facility in breeding together, having fertile offspring. 



There are very few countries that have, or are presumed to have, 

 a native race of Pigs, where some of the kinds are not kept in a more 

 or less domestic state. This is even the case where the animal is 

 regarded with disgust and never eaten as food, except by the lowest 

 class of the inhabitants, as in India. 



" Wild Hogs abound in the Dukhun, and the male attains to a 

 very great size. I am not satisfied that there is any specific differ- 

 ence between the European and Asiatic "Wild Hogs. Every viUage 

 abounds in hogs. The Village Hog is of the same colour as the wild 

 animal, mostly a rusty black, and the only variations are slate-black 

 or slate-brown ; but it is not above two-thirds of the size of the 

 latter. Tail never curled or spirally twisted. They dispute with 

 the Pariah dogs the possession of the ofial matter thrown out of the 

 houses, and are the public scavengers."— S^/fces, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 11. 



" The Indian "WUd Hog differs considerably from the German ; 

 the head of the former is longer and more pointed, and the plane of 

 the forehead straight, while it is concave in the European ; the ears 

 of the former are small and poiirted, of the latter larger and not so 

 erect. The Indian is altogether a more active-looking animal. The 

 German has a stronger and heavier appearance. The same differ- 

 ences are perceptible in the domesticated individuals of the two 

 countries." — Sylces, I. e. p. 30. 



In some of the islands of the Pacific the woods are stocked with. 



