CAPE VERDE BOAH. 
under consideration, if there had not been 
cutting-teeth in each of these jaws.'* 
BufFon, after admitting into his Supplement 
the above description and remarks of Pro- 
fessor Allaraand, concludes with observing, 
that he willingly assents to most of the reflec- 
tions. " But," he adds, I persist in be- 
lieving, as himself at first believed, that the 
Cape Verde Boar, which I mentioned, and the 
jaws described by M. Daubenton, belong to 
the same species, though the former had no 
cutting-teeth ; for in no animal is the number 
and order of the teeth so various as in the Hog- 
kind. This difference alone seems not suffi- 
cient to constitute two species of the African 
Wild Boar, and that of Cape Verde ; espe- 
cially, as all the other charadlers of the head 
appear to be the same.*' 
We have retained the original name of this 
animal, which BufFon lias since denominated 
the African Wild Boar. It seems, however, to 
be the opinion of most naturalists, that there 
are two species ; and that the Cape Verde Boar 
is the Sus Africanus of Linnaeus, while the pre- 
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