354 MAMMALIA. BELLUiE. Hog. 



a few blackifh brown briftles difpofed in little bundles ; thefe are more numerous, and longer on the 

 back, and more fo between the ears and on the top of the neck, where they form a kind of mane. 

 The head is very large, with a broad depreffed muple, truncated obliquely inwards, fo that the nof- 

 trils are not feen unlefs it be confiderably raifed ; the extremity is very broad, and almoft as hard as 

 horn; the mouth is fmall, and inftead of fore -teeth the gums are convex, fmooth, and very hard ; 

 the under tufks are fmall, but thofe above are large and bent upwards out of the mouth ; on each 

 fide of each jaw there are fix grinders •, the eyes are fmall, and are placed near each other, almoft at 

 the top of the r forehead ; immediately below each under eye-lid is a lingular wrinkly hollow or fac, 

 of foft, loofe, black fkin, from the under fide of which hangs down on the cheek, a large, broad, flat 

 lobe or wattle, rounded at the lower end; the ears are large, er -cted backwards, fharp pointed, and 

 lined with long whitifh hairs ; the tail is flender, fiat, covered with hairs difpofed in parcels, and 

 reaches only to the bottom of the thighs. This Angularly hideous animal burrows under ground, 

 and digs with furprifing expedition : It is confounded by Buffon with the preceding fpecies, though 

 remarkably different from it by the Angular ftruiture below the eyes, and by the want of fore-teeth. 



784 6. Babyroufia. — 6. Sus Babyrujfa. 5. 



Has two crooked tufks, refembling horns, which pierce through the upper part of the 

 face. Erxleb. mam. 188. n. 5. 



Aper orientalis. Briff. quad. no. n. 5. — 'Y; rir^xKt^ag. Aelian. an. xvii. c. 10. — Aper indicus. 

 Plin. hift. nat. viii. c. 52.— -Aper cornutus. Calpurn. eclog. 7. v. 58. — Babi-raefa. Seb. muf. i. 80. 

 t. 50. f. 2. — Porcus indicus, BabyroufTa, Babyrufa, BabiroufTa, Babi-roefa. Raj. quad. p6. Klein; 

 quad. 25. Bont. ind. 61. Jacob, muf. reg. 5. t. 2. f. 5. Lauf. muf. t. 3. f. 28. Valent. amboin. iii. 

 268. — Strange hogs with horns. Purch. pilg. ii. 1695. Vi 5<5<5- — Horned hog. Grew, muf. 27. 

 t. 1. — Babyrouffa. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 63. pi. xiv. f. 1. Sm. Buff. vii. 58. pi. cciii. — Eberhirfch, 

 Hirfcheber. Knorr, del. ii. t. k. 7. 



Inhabits the ifiands of Java, Celebes, Buero near Amboina, and the other iflands of the Indian 

 Ocean. — The Babyroufia lives in herds, and feeds on herbs and leaves of trees, but never ravages 

 the gardens and plantations like other fwine ; it has a very quick fcent, and, when purfued, often 

 takes to the water, where it fwims and dives with great dexterity ; in the forefts it is faid often to 

 reft itfelf by fufpending the weight of its head, by the crooked horn-like tufks, to the branches of 

 trees. The head is long and narrow, with fmall, erect, fharp pointed ears, and fmall eyes ; there are 

 four fore-teeth in the upper, and fix in the lower jaw, two tufks in each, and five grinders on each 

 fide of each jaw; the lower tulks ftand near eight inches out of the mouth, pointing toward the eyes ; 

 the upper tufks are rooted downwards in fockets which open outwards on the top of the nofe, fo that 

 they feem horns rather than teeth ; they are about twelve inches long, are very much bent upwards, 

 and recurved at the ends ; the body is plump and fquare, having a few weak brift les along the back, 

 but the reft is covered with a fhort woolly hair, of a grey colour mixed with red and black; the legs 

 are long and flender; the tail is long, ufually twiftedj and ends in a tuft of hair. The flefh of this 

 animal is reckoned very good. 



VII. 



