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stances in which an Indian jDig would certainly have 

 shown fight. 



The flesh is savoury, but dry and hard, even in com- 

 paratively young animals. 



Elian's wart-hog is considered by Dr. Gray, the last 

 writer on the subject, identical with the South African 

 Phacochoerus cethiopicus, Erxl. {Sus africanus, Gm.) ; 

 and unquestionably Dr. Gray gives very strong arguments 

 in favour of his views. My reasons for dissenting are : 

 first, that Dr. Gray, from the nature of the specimens 

 before him, was compelled to rely entirely upon cranial 

 and osteological characters, and that I believe there are 

 external differences in the two forms ; secondly, that 

 all the specimens in the British Museum appear to be 

 from South or West Africa and not from Abyssinia ; 

 and it is most probable that the two races are repre- 

 sentative. 



The external differences are far from unimportant, as 

 I judge from a fine adult South African specimen in the 

 Gardens of the Zoological Society, and from the drawing 

 in Major Cornwallis Harris's " Game Animals of South 

 Africa." The ears in the South African species have 

 tufts of long hair ; this peculiarity is wanting in P. 

 jEliani : and the form of the warty protuberances 

 on the face is quite different in the two species, — in 

 the males, at all events ; in the females the warts are 

 much smaller, and the upper ones are deficient. The 

 colour of P. cethiopicus also appears much more rufous 

 in general. 



So far as regards the dental characters, all the evi- 



