ORDER OF PACHYDERMATA. 
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The Common Wild Boar sometimes measures as much as one 
metre twenty-five centimetres from the end of the muzzle to the 
beginning of the tail. Its whole body is covered with bristles of 
a blackish -brown colour, stiff, hard, longer on the back and 
round the ears than in its other parts, and which form a sort of 
mane when the animal is excited. The body is large and thick- 
set. The ears are rather short, straight, and movable. The 
