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VI. 



SUS SCROFA. 

 The Wild Hog. 



Order. Bellu.>e, Lin. Pachydermata, Cuv. 



Gen. Char. Incisors 4 or I- ; canines 4 — t; molars -f — f 



=42 or 44. Canines very long and bent upwards ; 

 molars with tuberculatcd crowns ; /£><?.? four, fenced 

 with hoofs, on each foot, and of which only the 

 two intermediate ones touch the ground ; snout 

 truncated, elongated, cartalaginous ; body covered 

 with bristles : teats twelve. 



Spec. Char. Body bristled in front ; canines strong, 

 triangular, directed internally ; no protuberance under 

 the eyes ; colour blackish grey in the wild animal, 

 but varying much in the domesticated races. 



'Ts aypios ; Arist. Hist. Anirn. 1. c. 2. Kcnrpos; Id. ii. c. 9. 11. v. c. 13- 

 Oppian Cyneg. iii. 304. 2us aypios ; JElian An. v. c. 45. Sus ferns, Aper; 

 Plinii, Hist. lib. viii. C. 51. Sus agrestis, sive Aper, Wild Boar, or Swine; 

 Raii Quadr. 96. Wild Scbwein ; Klein, Quadr. 35. Aper; Gesner Quadr. 

 1039. Sus cavdatua ; Brisson, Quudr. 75. Hog-; Pennant , Brit. Zool. i. 41. 

 Id. Hist. Quadr. i. 110. Le Sanglicr; Buffon, Hist. Nat. v. p. 176, t. 14. 

 Sus scrofa ; Lin. Syst.Nat. Gmelin. i. 217. Shaio. Zool. ii. t.221. 



This is the origin of all the varieties of this useful quadruped. 

 It is a native of almost all the temperate parts of Europe and Asia, 

 and is also found in the north of Africa, but is not met with in 

 the arctic latitudes. From the concurrent testimony of many 

 respectable writers, it appears that the Hog was formerly indigenous 

 to this country; thus it is asserted by Fitz-Stephens, that the 

 vast forests which, in his time, grew on the north side of London, 

 was the retreat of stags, wild boars, and bulls. 

 The Wild Hog chiefly affects the hilly and wooded districts, 



