CAPE VERDE BOAR. 
presented to him, he darted on her with fury, 
and tore her to pieces." 
M. Pallas, and M. Vosmaer, have each 
used the same figure, and each of them have 
described this animaL 
" M. De Buffon," says Professor AllamanJ, 
in his Addition to the description of this ani- 
mal by BufFon, " has shewn, in his history of 
the Kog, that he eludes all those methodical 
distributions into classes and genera, the dis- 
tinguishing charavllers of which are derived 
from particular parts of the bodv. Though 
liis reasons are not to be answered ; they 
would have acquired additional force, if he 
liad been acquainted with the animal under 
consideration. lu is a Wild Boar sent from 
tiie Cape of Good Hope, in the vear 1765, to 
the Menr.gerie of the Prince of Orange, whicli 
lias hitherto been unknown to the naturalists. 
To I^!. I'ulbagh, Governor of the Cape of 
Good Hope, w^e are indebted for this animal ; 
which, he remarks, was taken about two hun- 
dred leagues from tiie Cape, and was the hrsr 
whi'-h iud ever been seen there alive. The 
last 
