1. sm. 329 



a. Wild Swine. The ears erect, hairy. Colour of fur uniform or more or 

 less grizzled. Young yeUow, streaked. Skull elongate; facial line 

 straight ; .forehead convex.— ^Qia,y, I. c. p. 22. 



1. sus. 



Face conical, simple, or -with two or three small warts on each 

 cheek. Ears ovate, hairy. Tail moderate, tufted at the end. SkuU 

 elongate ; the forehead and upper part of nose rounded on the sides ; 

 upper part of the intermaxillary bone smooth ; nose very long, 

 tapering, convex, rounded and smooth on the sides above ; concavity 

 on the cheek deep, continued nearly to the orbit behind. Canines 

 weU developed, of upper jaw recurved ; the sheath of the upper 

 canine (of the males at least) with a longitudinal ridge across the 

 upper part of the base. 



Hab. Europe, Asia, and the Malay Islands. 



Sus, Linn. ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1852, p. 130, 1868, p. 22 ; Owen, Odmit. 

 p. 534, 1. 140. f. 1; Fitz. Sitz. Akad. der Wiss. 1864, p. 384 j F. 

 Cuv. Dent. Mamm. p. 208, t. 85. 



The head and skull lengthened absolutely, and as compared with 

 its width, as the animal increases in age, and-^^speciaUy as it reaches 

 adult and old age. The nasal bones of the skuU elongated as the 

 animal increases in age. In the young they seldom extend beyond 

 a line even with the larger foramen on the side of the face ; but in 

 the adult they are generally much produced behind it (P. Z. S. 1852, 

 p. 131). 



The descriptions and the figures of the two jaws in F. Cuvier's 

 ' Dent. Mamm.' p. 208, do not agree ; he says there are 14 grinders 

 in each jaw, and divides them into 6 false molars and 8 molars in 

 the upper, and 2 false and 6 molars in the lower ; the 2 is perhaps 

 a mistake for 8. The front lower premolar is fax from the canine 

 and second premolar ; three upper and four lower premolars com- 

 pressed ; the last grinder elongate, longer than broad. 



Fitzinger, in his monograph, divides the Pigs thus, according to 

 the presence or absence of warts on the face : — 



"Warts none : — Sus leucomystax, S. timorensis, S. vittatw, S. bar- 

 batus, S. oristatus, S. sennaariensis. 



"Warts small, under eyes : — S. scrofa. 



"Warts three — one large, on the mandible, covered with long 

 bristles, and a small one under the eye, and the other above the 

 canines : — S. verrucosus, S. celebensis. 



The Pigs may be divided geographically: — Europe, S. scrofa; 

 Asia Minor, S. libycus ; India, S. cristatus, S. andamanensis ; Africa, 

 S. sennaariensis ; Malay Islands, S. verrucosus, S. celebensis, S. bar- 

 batus, S, vittatus, S. timorensis ; Japan and Formosa, S. leucomys- 

 tax. 



