4. scEOFA. 345 



wild species are often more or less domesticated in the countries 

 they naturally inhabit; hut these animals dijBfer little from their 

 wUd progenitors, and are very different from the true domestic 

 animals. . 



4. SCROPA. 



Face conical, smooth, or nearly so. Skull — sheath of the canine 

 with a more or less distinct longitudinal crest across the base. 

 Scrofa, Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 38. 



Scrofa domestica. 



Scrofa domestica, Gra-y, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 38. 



Sua verres, Plinius, Hist. Nat. Tiii. p. 151. 



Sus domesticus, Brisson, Rkg. Anim. p. 106. 



Sus scrofa domesticus, Erxleb. Syst. p. 179; Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 



p. 422. 

 Cochon, Buffon, H. N. v. p. 99. 



Ven-at, Buffon, H. N. v. p. 99, t. 17. f. 2 (t. 24. f. 3, skull). 

 Hog, Penn. 



Hab. Domesticated in most parts of the inhabited world. 

 Some varieties have small erect hairy ears and strong long legs 

 like wild swine. 



Var. 1. Coehon de Siam, Buffon, v. pp. 125, 137, t. 17. f. 1 (t. 24. 

 f. 2, skull?). 



Sua scrofa sinensis, Schreb. t. 324 (copied from Buffon ; not S. si- 

 nensis, Brisson), 



Black. The young black, without any streaks. Face tapering. 

 Skull rather short ; crown rather convex {Buffon). 



Hob. Siam. I have not seen the variety. 



Daubenton describes the skeleton (H. N. v. p? 181). This has most 

 unaccountably been confused with the Chinese Pig by Desmarest, 

 Fischer, and others, which has very short thin legs, with the belly 

 almost to the ground. I have not seen this variety. 



A young hoar from Algiers. Rusty brown ; hair black, with long 

 rusty ends. Nose, orbits, edge of ears, and a longitudinal streak 

 on the whiskers black. Chest nakedish. No warts on the cheeks. 

 Ears moderate, densely hairy. 



Hob. Algiers (B.M. ; Henry Christy, Esq.). 



SkuU in the British Museum (no. 713 r). This animal lived some 

 time in the Zoological Society's Gardens. The skidl is short, with a 

 flat forehead and nose like that of a Domestic Pig. It is, in many 

 respects, very hke the Cochon de Siam of Buffon. 



Var. 2. Pore noir d jamhe courte, F. Guv. 



Sus scrofa domestica meridionalis, Fischer, Syn. Mamm. p. 442. 



Hab. Italy. 



Black. Ears small, nearly erect. A fold over the eyebrow. 



