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name, not only because of its priority, but because it suggests the 

 great size of the species, and also because the type-skull and the 

 tope-typical one are complete and fully adult. 



The two skulls from Vladivostok and that from the Ussuri 

 exceed in size any skulls hitherto obtained in China proper, and 

 also show a wonderful tusk-development. The lower tusk of the 

 smaller of the two Vladivostok skulls measured 10", notwith- 

 standing the fact that it was broken off at the tip, while the tusk 

 of the larger skull must have exceeded this considerably, but I 

 could not extract it for measurement. However, it measured If" 

 in diameter. The largest tusks from China that I have measured 

 were 10" in length (not broken at all) and 1|" in diameter. 

 None of the fine skulls 'in Heude's collection from China bore 

 tusks over 8|" in length or 1|-" in diameter. 



In regard to the Manchurian pigs Heude says (page 111, 

 vol. iii.) that the eastern forms partake somewhat of the dental 

 characteristics of 3. scrofa, but differ more widely as one goes 

 westwards. This may be so, but, as I have pointed out, his 

 specimens canescens and mandchnricus in all probability come 

 from the same forest area as his specimens ussuricus. songaricus, 

 and gigas — themselves representing but the one species. 



4. Sus coreanus Heude # . 



I should consider this a valid species. Its skull is altogether 

 smaller than that of the Manchurian species, and is also propor- 

 tionately shorter than that of S. palydosus, the Yang-tze' form, 

 but it is larger and proportionately longer than the Japanese 

 JS.. leucomystax. 



5. Sus meles Heude f . 



Represented by a single skull from Kuangsi, South China, this 

 species I should have no hesitation in confirming, were it not for 

 the fact that no description accompanies the name. The skull 

 has shorter nasals and a much broader forehead than the type of 

 8. paludosus, besides being much smaller. A remarkable differ- 

 ence occurs in the upper tooth-row, where there is one premolar 

 less than in any of the foregoing species. The skull is not so 

 short and heavy as that of the specimen from Japan. 



Besides the fine series of adult male skulls mentioned above, 

 there are several adult female and young male skulls in the 

 collection. A female skull labelled S. moupinensis from South 

 Shensi (?'. e. somewhere in the region where the other Shensi 

 skulls came from) differs but little from a female skull from 

 Kiente, though the latter is a little higher in the crest, and is 

 also slightly longer and narrower. The height of the cre.st, how- 

 ever, is confined to this single specimen, all the other female 



* Mem. cone. l'Hist. Nat, de l'Emp. Chin, tome iii. p. 191. 



f Not described in Mem. cone. l'Hist. Nat. de.l'Emp. Chin., though the name is 



