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THE BABIROUSSA. 
sea freely, and swim to some other neighbouring 
island. 
Our next animals exhibit a very remarkable 
African form. There seems, without doubt, to be 
two species, — one from the south-west, the other 
from the north of the continent. The correct 
synonymy of the first, or oldest known, seems yet 
somewhat confused ; and the unravelling of the 
Sus Larvatus, the Sus Ethiopicus, and Ethiopian 
Hog of Daniel, is left even by our latest zoolo- 
gists in uncertainty. The eighth volume of the 
Memoirs du Musee will contain the best account 
of the variation of the skulls, and of the dental 
system. Phascochaeres has been applied as a 
generic term to this form, remarkable for the 
large and strong tusks, and for the swollen and 
warty appearance of the face ; we have taken 
Ruppel’s figure for our first illustration, and give 
his description entire, so little being yet known 
regarding these formidable looking creatures. 
