C H4P. XVII. 
MEANS OF DEFENCE. 
265 
^ the lieacl were held a little laterally, serve as an 
ex cellent guard ; and hence, perhaps it is that in 
°fd animals they “ are generally broken off, as if by 
‘ %hting.” 36 Here, then, we have the curious case of 
t!l e upper tusks of the Babimsa regularly assuming 
■taring the prime of life, a structure which apparently 
l '°nders them fitted only for defence ; whilst in the Euro- 
P e an boar the lower aud opposite tusks assume in a less 
'tagree and only during old age nearly the same form, 
a,u l then serve in like manner solely for defence. 
l S- 65. Head of ^Ethiopian Wart-hog, from 1 Proc. Zool. Soc.* 1869. (I now find that 
this drawing represents the head of a female, but it serves to shew, on a reduced 
Sc ale, the characters of the male.) 
In the wart-hog ( Phacoclioerus ssthiopicus, fig. 65) 
ttae tusks in the upper jaw of the male curve upwards 
during the prime of life, and from being pointed, 
S(il 've as formidable weapons. The tusks in the lower 
.law are sharper than those in the upper, but from their 
shortness it seems hardly possible that they can be used 
as weapons of attack. They must, however, greatly 
3c See Mr. Wallace’s interesting account of this animal, 1 The Malay 
^’chipelago,’ 1869, vol. i. p. 435. 
