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THE PYGMY HOG 



Major is disposed to reduce them to four if not to fewer species. 

 He allows the widely - ranging 8. scrofa, S. vittatus, and the 

 eastern Malayan (S'. verrucosus and & harhatus. 



The I'ygmy Hog of the Bhotans seems to be not entitled to 

 specific rank, certainly not to generic (in the opinion of some), 

 though it has been termed Porcula salrania} The Wild Boar of 



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Fig. 142. — Pygmy Hog (from Nature). Sus sahania. x J. 



Europe is Sus scrofa. It was formerly quite abundant in this 

 country ; not merely are its remains exhumed from fens, caves 

 and peat bogs, but there is ample evidence of its continuance 

 down to a comparatively late historic period. Enactments are 

 on record as to the hunting of these animals ; there are places, 

 such as Boarstall, whose names are clearly derived from the 

 name of the animal, presumably once a native of the locality ; 

 and various documents all show the presence of the Wild Boar 



' Dr. Garson has investigated its anatomy, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 413, and 

 states tliat its differences from S'us are "unimportant and few." 



