THE NEW SUMATRAN PIG. 59 



The colouring too is somewhat different. The scantily 

 haired skin is generally covered with an equal mixture of pale 

 yellowish and black hairs, the former darkened and the latter 

 bleached for two to three millimetres at the tip, but this parti- 

 colouring is only remarked on close examination. The growth, 

 however, is so slight as not to detract from the dirty yellowish 

 appearance of the body which is thus contrasted with the outer 

 sides of the forelegs that are almost entirely black, as are the 

 lower hind-legs also, but to a less extent ; while the short bristles 

 between the bare snout and the warts are grizzled black and 

 whitish. The fore-head and inter-orbital region are freely 

 sprinkled with short, pure white hairs very slightly yellowish 

 at the tips. 



The spatulate-like growth of coarse black bristles on the 

 distal third of the tail is very noticeable and forms a marked 

 point of difference from Sus barbatus and longirostris in which 

 the tails are covered with bristles throughout in all the examples 

 I have seen. 



The warts on the nose are elliptical in shape, the greatest 

 diameter being about 50 m.m. and they rise some 40 m.m. 

 above' the skin surface from which they spring : they are entirely 

 cartilaginous and in no way connected with the skull. 



Between the eye and ear and at the angle of the lower 

 jaw the skin forms almost a distended pocket and it is from the 

 ridge of this excrescence that the curled whiskers, which show 

 such a remarkable developement in some specimens, take their 

 rise. 



The animal is practically maneless except for a slight 

 lengthening of hair above the neck and shoulders but this is 

 only visible when closely looked for. The specimen under dis- 

 cussion stood 39 inches (990 m.m.) high at the shoulder and 

 the length from tip of snout to tail — unfortunately taken along 

 the curves of the body instead of in a straight line — was 7 Sc- 

 inches (1866 m.m.) 



The teeth show it to be fully adult and while the skin of a 

 cristatus or vittatus boar of the same age would have shoulder 

 shields little less than an inch in thickness this Sus oi skin not 



R. A. Soc, No. 45. 1905. 



