2c8 THE BOAR. 
readily tamed, becoming unpleasantly familiar with those persons whom it 
knows, and taking all kinds of liberties with them, which would be well 
enough in a little dog or a kitten, but are quite out of place with an animal 
as Jarge as a donkey. 
THE second species of Tapir is found in Malacca and Sumatra, and is a 
most conspicuous animal, in consequence of the broad band of white that 
encircles the body, and which at a little distance gives it the aspect of being 
muffled up in a white sheet. 
The ground colour of the adult MALAYAN TaPIR is a deep sooty black, 
contrasting most strongly with the greyish white of the back and flanks. 
The young animal is as beautifully variegated as that of the preceding species, 
being striped and spotted with yellow fawn upon the upper parts of the body, 
and with white below. There is no mane upon the neck of the Malayan 
Tapir, and the proboscis is even longer in proportion. In size it rather 
exceeds the preceding animal. In many of its habits the Malayan animal is 
exactly similar to the species which inhabits America, but it is said that 
although the KUDA-AYER is very fond of the water, it does not attempt to 
swim, but contents itself with walking on the bed of the stream. Although 
a sufficiently common animal in its native country, it is but seldom seen, 
owing to its extremely shy habits, and its custom of concealing itself in the 
thickest underwood. 
The hide of the Tapir is employed by the natives for several useful pur- 
poses, but the flesh is dry, tasteless, and not worth the trouble of cooking. 
The term Kuda-Ayer is a Malayan word, signifying “river-horse,” and it is 
also known by the name of Tennu. 
In the SWINE, the snout is far less elephantine than in the preceding 
animals, and, though capable of considerable mobility, cannot be curled 
round any object so as to raise it from the ground. Nor, indeed, is such a 
power needed, as the Swine employ the snout for the purpose of rooting in 
: the earth, and of distinguishing, 
by its tactile powers and the 
delicate sense of smell which 
is possessed by these animals, 
those substances which are suit- 
able for food. 
There are many species as 
well as varieties of Swine, which 
are found in different parts of 
the earth, the first and most 
familiar of which is the Do- 
MESTIC Hoc of Europe. 
EN =—= This species is spread over 
THE BOAR.—(5Sus scrofa.) the greater portion of the habit- 
able globe, and was in former 
days common in a wild state even in England, from whence it has only been 
expelled within a comparatively late period. The chase of the wild boar was 
a favourite amusement of the upper classes, and the animal was one of 
those which were protected by the terribly severe forest laws which were 
then in vogue. 
At the present time the wild Swine have ceased from out of England, in 
spite of several efforts that have been made to restore the breed by importing 
specimens from the Continent and turning them into the forests. There are, 
however, traces of the old wild boars still to be found in the forest pigs ot 
Hampshire, with their high crests, broad shoulders, and thick bristling manes. 
These animals are very active, and are much fiercer than the ordinary Swine. 
