CAPE VERDE EGAS. 
which, I bcheve, have never been mentioned 
by any naturalist. It was black, Hke the Eu- 
ropean Wild Boar, but vastly larger in size.' 
It had four large tusks ; the two superior of 
which bent in a semicircular form toward the 
front, and had the appearance of horns.*' — M. 
De BufFon supposes, that M. Adanson means 
to describe the Babiroussa; yet, were it not 
for his authority, I should have been led to 
beheve, that M. Adanson intended to point out 
our African Boar ; for, if he had the Babi- 
j oussa under his inspeclion, I cannot compre- 
hend how he should remark, that it had never 
been mentioned by any naturalist. He is too 
much conversant iji Natural Historv, not to 
know that the Babiroussa has been often de- 
scribed, and that it's head is found in almost 
every Museum in Europe. But, in Africa, 
there is, perhaps, another species of Wild 
Boar, with which we are still unacquainted, 
and was the animal seen by M. Adanson. 
I'his conjecture is supported bv the description 
which M. Daubenton has given of a part of 
the jaws of a Cape Verde Wild Boar. His 
remarks clearly prove, that it differs from our 
Boar, and would apply dircclly to the one 
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