80 DOMESTIC PIGS. Chap. Ill 



in the domestic boar is related to his coat of bristles being 

 diminished from living under shelter ? On the other hand, 

 as we shall immediately see, the tusks and bristles reappear 

 with feral boars, which are no longer protected from the 

 weather. It is not surprising that the tusks should be more 

 affected than the other teeth ; as parts developed to serve 

 as secondary sexual characters are always liable to much 

 variation. 



It is a well-known fact that the young of wild European 

 and Indian pigs, 26 for the first six months, are longitudinally 

 banded with light-coloured stripes. This character generally 

 disappears under domestication. The Turkish domestic pigs, 

 however j have striped young, as have those of Westphalia, 

 "whatever maybe their hue;" 27 whether these latter pigs 

 belong to the same curly- haired race as the Turkish swine, 

 I do not know. The pigs which have run wild in Jamaica 

 and the semi-feral pigs of New Granada, both those which 

 are black and those which are black with a white band across 

 the stomach, often extending over the back, have resumed 

 tiii-> aboriginal character and produce longitudinally-striped 

 young. This is likewise the ease, at least occasionally, with 

 tlie neglected pigs in the Zambesi settlement on the coast of 

 Africa. 28 



26 D. Johnson's ' Sketches of lu.li.-in Hamilton Smith, iu 'Nat. Library, 



Field Sports,' p. 272. Mr. Crawford vol. ix.p. 97». With respect to Africa 



informs ra same fact holds see Livingstone's 'Expedition to the 



with the will pigs of the Malay Zam . p. 1 03. The most 



• ila. precise statement with respect to the 



87 Fur Turkish pig . tusks of the West Indian feral boars is 



'Mammal, 1820, p. 391. For by P. Labat (quoted by Roulin) ; but 



those of Westphalia, see Richardson's this author attributes the state of 



4 Pisjs. their Orig ... & .' I 347, p. 41. these pigs to descent from a domestic 



M With respect to the several fore- stock which he saw in Spain. Admiral 



eoing and following statements on Suli van, R.N., had ample opportunities 



feral pigs, s • Roulin, in "Mem. pre- of observing the wild pigs on Eagle 



sentes par divers Savans a l'Acad.,' Islet in the Falklands ; and he informs 



&c, Pari-, torn. vi. 1835, p. 326. It me that they resembled wild boars 



should be observed that his account with bristly ridged backs and large 



does not apply to truly feral pigs; tusks. The pigs which have run wild 



but t i introduced into the in the province of Buenos Ay res 



couutrv and living in a half-wild (Rengg .. 'Sa gethiere,' s. 331) have 



state. ' For the tiulv feral pigs of not reverted to the wild type. De 



Jamaica. - * S -urn in Blainville (' Osteographie,' p. 132) 



Jamaica,' 1831, p. 386; and Col refers to two skulls uf domestic pigs 



