464 .ETHIOPIAN HOG. 



Pliny, and is said by the former to have been 

 most common in Illyria and Pa3onia. 

 , The age of the Domestic Hog is said to extend 

 from fifteen to twenty-live years, or even more. 



.i:thiopian hog. 



Sus ^thiopicus. 5. sacculo 7nolli snh oculis. Lin, Syst. Nat. 



Gmel, p, 220. 

 Hog with wattles beneath the eyes. 



Aper ^thiopicus. Pallas Miscell. Zool. p. i6» t. 2. Spk. 



ZooL 2. p. 3. t, II. p. 84. t. ^.f. 7. 

 Sanglier du Cap Verd. Bvff'. Suppl. ^. p. ']6. pi. 11. 

 Ethiopian Hog. Pennant Quadr. i. p. 144. 



This animal is very much allied in its general 

 appearance to the common Hog, but is distin- 

 guished by a pair of large, flat, semicircular lobes 

 or wattles, placed beneath the eyes ; the snout is 

 also of a much broader form, and is very strong 

 and callous : the ears are large and very slightly 

 pointed : the tusks in the lower jaw are rather 

 small ; but those in the upper jaw are large, sharp, 

 curved, and in the old animal bend upwards in a 

 semicircular manner towards the forehead : there 

 are no fore-teeth ; their place being supplied by 

 very hard gums * : the skin of the face, imme- 

 diately below the eyes, or above the broad lobes 

 before-mentioned, is loose and wrinkled, and on 

 each side the corners of the mouth is a callous 



* This at least was the case in the specimen at the Hague. 



