THE PIG AND HIPPOPOTAMUS 2779 
Wild swine are nocturnal in their habits, frequenting 
moist and marshy country, loving the shade of forests, 
and making their lairs in tall grass, reed-beds, and similar 
covert. They go far afield for their food-supplies, and do 
a great deal of damage to crops in cultivated districts. 
The European wild sow produces from six to ten young, 
and at least two litters are usually brought forth in 
the year. 
It is remarkable how quickly pigs, as well as other 
domesticated animals, revert to a semi-feral state of 
existence, and develop habits suited to a fresh environ- 
ment. Mr. J. Turner-Turner sends us the following 
interesting note in connection with this trait: ‘ DIvING- 
PIGS. — These pigs live in an almost wild condition on 
certain ofthe islands off Florida, and subsist chiefly upon 
the refuse fish cast away by the netsmen. To obtain 
this, the pigs dive under water, walking on the land at — 
a depth of 5 feet below the surface.” JAVAN WILD PIG 
Among other Asiatic wild swine are to be mentioned 
One of several nearly allied species inhabiting the 
the COLLARED PIG, found in Java, Sumatra, and Borneo; Malay Islands 
the WHITE-WHISKERED JAPANESE P1G; the PAPUAN and . 
FORMOSAN Pics; the WARTY PIG of Java and Borneo; the CERAM PiG; the CELEBES PIG; 
and the BEARDED PG of Borneo, a species distinguished by a quantity of long hair carried 
upon the cheeks. In the Andaman Islands a small, shaggy wild pig, standing about 20 inches 
at the shoulder, is found in the forests. Although distinguished from the well-known wild 
boar of India by certain peculiarities, there is a strong family resemblance to that well-known 
species in most of these various Asiatic species and races. 
Among the many kinds of domesticated swine found in Asia, perhaps the strangest and 
most curious is the JAPANESE MASKED Pic. This animal is described by Darwin as having 
‘an extraordinary appearance, from its short head, broad forehead and nose, great fleshy ears, 
and deeply furrowed skin. Not only is the face furrowed, but thick folds of skin, which are 
harder than the other parts, almost 
like the plates on the Indian 
rhinoceros, hang about the 
shoulders and rump. It _ is 
coloured black, with white feet, 
and breeds true. That it has 
long been domesticated there can 
be little doubt; and this might 
have been inferred even from the 
circumstance that its young are 
not longitudinally striped.” 
In Africa, besides the Euro- 
pean wild boar, which there 
extends its range to Algeria and 
Morocco, a little known wild pig 
is the SENAAR Boar, found in 
Senaar, Kordofan, and the Soudan 
region. In the late Dr. Gray’s 
MALE AND FEMALE BABIRUSA “Catalogue of Carnivora” this 
The chief characteristic of this pig is the peculiar and enormous development of the tusks wild pig 1s described as having 
in the male, the upper pair of which grow through the lips and curve backwards the fur dense and bristly, and 
