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MALAYAN BEARDED PIGS. 
In this connection it is interesting to note that the Malays 
inhabiting the central parts of Eastern Sumatra and some of the 
islands closely adjacent report the existence there of another pig 
much larger than Sus b. oi and regarded by them as quite distinct 
from it — the “ Babi branti ” — in habits nomadic and consorting 
in droves 0 . There is no reason to doubt the statements which in- 
dicate a Sumatran analogue to the Bornean Sus gargantua, thus 
paralleling the case of oi and barbatus. 
Excluding — their position being uncertain — Sus gargantua of 
South-eastern Borneo, of huge size, and Sus branti of Eastern 
Sumatra, breast high at the shoulders and decreasing towards the 
rump, it appears to me that there are only three real species of 
pig in the Malaysian sub-region (not including the Philippine 
Islands and Celebes) : these are Sus scrofa (to which belong S. 
crista t us, S. vittatus and all the “ species ” or forms of common 
wild swine that have been described from the area 7 ), Sus barbatus 
of Borneo and Sumatra and Sus verrucosus of Java. 
Literature Consulted. 
Rolleston, Transactions of the Linnean Society : Zoology, Yol. I, 
pt. 5, Oct. 1877, pp. 251-286, pis. XLI-XLIII. 
Lydekker, Memoirs of the Geological Society of India, Palaeon- 
tologia Indica, Ser. X, Yol. Ill, pt. 2, 1884, pp. 35-104, 
pis. YI-XII. 
Jentink, Notes from the Leyden Museum , XIII, 1891, pp. 85- 
104; id., op. cit., XXVI, 1905, pp. 155-194, pis. 2-14. 
Foksyth Major, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 6, 
XIX, 1897, pp. 521-542'. 
Kloss, Journ, Straits Branch, Roy. Asiatic Soc., Xo. 45, 1905, 
pp. 55-60, pis. I-III ; id., op. cit.. No. 49, 1907, pp. 67-69. 
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« This huge pig, whether of Borneo or Sumatra, must be a fine animal 
and is probably so powerful and fierce as to provide excellent sport. It is 
to be hoped that the first man so fortunate as to obtain good adult specimens 
will not content himself with taking merely the skull and scalp but will 
preserve the whole skin and skeleton. 
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