56 THE NEW SUMATRAN PIG. 



which the carcase was towed behind the launch, got upset in a 

 rough sea. The photograph of a very fine boar shot by another 

 party shows the abnormal size of the head in comparison with 

 the body and funny light coloured bumps on the head which the 

 ordinary wild pigs don't show. This was a very old chap. My 

 boars seem to me to be in a better condition and more in propor- 

 tion with long and heavy bodies and standing high on their legs. 



" I think I have told you before that I and others have 

 frequently been to the same island in former years but never 

 came across this kind of pig, and I can only conclude that it is 

 the pineapple plantations now opened up near the coast, which 

 have drawn them lately from the more interior parts of the 

 island. 



" In Java, I am told by old sportsmen, there exists a 

 kind of wild boar which also has the hairy warts on the nose 

 but no beard or whiskers' 55 ' same as the Pulo Battam boar 

 has. Some North Borneo planters who have seen my head, 

 say that the N. Borneo boarf is more yellowish and that an old 

 sow there has even far heavier whiskers and hairy warts than 

 any boar : there is therefore a good deal of difference between 

 these and the Pulo Battam pigs. 



" The same kind of pig is said to be found on Pulo Bintang 

 (Rio). " 



Below is the description of the type specimen : — 



SUS oi sp. nov. 



Miller. Peoc. Biol. Soc. Wash. Vol. XV. 1902 



" Tyj?e. — Adult male (skin and skull) No. 113,150 United 

 States National Museum. Collected on banks of the Indragiri 

 River (about 30 miles above mouth) eastern Sumatra, Septem- 

 ber 20, 1901, by Dr. W. L Abbott. Original number 1319. 



Characters. — Externally most like Sus barbatus, but with 

 body even more scantily haired (there is no mane and the skin 



* Sus barbatus. 

 f Sus verrucosus. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



