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lateral bristles, like those of the elephant, arranged like the wings of an 

 arrow. The young is more hairy, with the plurality of hairs tawny or 

 fulvous, some with black root and apex, which, as they are more or less 

 mixed with black hairs, produce on the sides of the body saturated 

 fulvous stripes. The hairs of the throat, chest, abdomen, and elbows, 

 (in the two latter places very long,) are black at the basal, and white at 

 the apical half. Wild hogs are exceedingly numerous on the Peninsula, 

 and most of the Malayan Islands, The largest boar examined measur- 

 ed from the apex of the nose to the root of the tail, five feet ; the tail 

 one foot. The stomach of a young boar, examined shortly after it had 

 been speared, was extended with food, principally consisting of the re- 

 mains of a very large coleopterous larva, some small seeds of different 

 kinds, leaves, grass and roots. 



Sus Scrofa, Var. sinensis, Linne. 



Syn. — " Babi" of the Malays. 



Introduced by the Chinese settlers. 



Gen. — Rhinoceros, Linne. 



Rhinoceros unicornis, Linne. 



Syn. — Rhinoceros indicus, Cuvier. 



Rhinoceros asiaticus, Blumenbach. 



Rhinoceros inermis, Lesson. 



" Badak" of the Malays of the Peninsula. 

 Hab. — Malayan Peninsula. 



Bengal, Assam, Nipal. 



Rhinoceros sondaicus, Cuvier. 



Syn. — Rhinoceros sondaicus, Cuvier, 1 * , u c aj 

 "Warak,"" Badak," j-Apud Horsfield. 



Rhinoceros javanensis, F. Cuvier, apud Schinz. 

 Hab. — Malayan Peninsula. 



Java. 

 This, as well as the former species, appears to be numerous on the 

 Malayan Peninsula. 



