1875.] 



Porcupines — Hares — Boars. 



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condition, and when of young or half-grown specimens only, some of the 

 supposed species of them (if they really be species) are difficult of discrimina- 

 tion. These animals require to be compared together when alive, adult, and 

 in good condition, in order to be properly understood. 



111. Athekttea pasciculata. 



Rystrix fascicular Shaw ; Buffon, Supp. torn. vii. p. 303, t. 77. 

 This animal inhabits the Tippera hills, Siam, and the Malayan peninsula, 

 and therefore probably the Indo-Chinese countries generally. 



A living Malayan example in the London Zoological Gardens could not 

 be distinguished from its African companions referred to A. africana, Gray ; 

 but an example from Assam is much paler in colour and more freckled, as 

 was otfe which I possessed from Tippera. This northern race is well figured 

 in Hardwicke's " Illustrations of Indian Zoology," copied from one of 

 Buchanan Hamilton's drawings. 



Fam. Leporidse. 



Hares. 



112. LePUS PEGUEltfSIS. 



Zepuspeguensis, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. B. xxiv. p. 471. Yung (Mason). 



Inhabits the open country within or beyond the range of forests. Craw- 

 furd long ago remarked that " the Hare is unknown in Pegu, but that it 

 makes its appearance in the hills before the disemboguement of the Irawadi." 



Order UNGULATA. 



Fam. Suidse. 



113. Sus ceistatus (J. 215). 



Sus cristatus, Wagner, Munch, gel. Anzeig. ix. p. 535, 1839 ; S. indicus, Gray. 

 Tau-wet (Mason). 



A boar which I examined at Akyab was of the ordinary Bengal race . 

 but the Tenasserim wild boars are considerably smaller, the skulls of adults 

 being one-fifth less in linear dimensions, though otherwise similar. One 

 such was given to me in Calcutta as that of a tusked sow, and I afterwards 

 found that the Tenasserim boar-skulls differed in no respect. The race 

 requires to be critically examined. Mason remarks that the Tenasserim wild 

 Hogs are of " a small blackish species, exceedingly numerous/' and that 

 they are very destructive to the Karen paddy-fields. According to Colonel 

 McMaster, although some heads of Tenasserim wild boars, which I showed 



