BABYROUSSA. 
wards the eyes, and standing nearly eight in- 
ches out of their sockets ; and, from two 
sockets on the outside of the upper jaw, are 
two other teeth, twelve inches long, bending 
like horns, their ends almost touching the fore - 
head." 
In what Pennant observes, as to the resi- 
dence of f the Babyrous'sa, we cannot think 
him sufficiently correct; and consider his cen- 
sure of BufFon as quite unfounded. He says, 
— " it inhabits Boero, a small isle near Am- 
boyna: but neither on the continent of Asia, 
nor Africa; what M. De Buffon takes for it, 
is the ^Ethiopian Boar." Who would ima- 
gine, from this, that Pennant had ever seen 
Valentine's History of the East Indies, from 
which he also says he has taken his natural 
history of this animal ; where it is expressly 
asserted, that the Babyroussas are numerous 
in the islands of Boero, Cajely, Xoelasche, 
Xoela, Mangoli, Bangay, on the west coast of 
Celebes, and in Manado?" 
That it is also found at Senegal, seems suffi- 
ciently certain-—" l at last perceived," says 
M. Adansouj 
