230 JELIANS’ WART-HOG. 
Along the lower edge of the lower jaw, we per- 
ceive a whisker of white hair curled upwards. 
The eyes are small, with light black eye-lashes, 
and long black eye-brow bristles, and a tuft of 
bristles is under the eyes. The ears at the lower 
part of the external margin are cut obliquely, and 
the whole margin is bordered with white bristly 
hair. The tail is almost bare, thin, and its joint 
provided with a tuft of hair. On the fore-feet is 
a piece of protuberant thick hard skin. Our 
Wart Hog has been found by Ruppell, first at 
Kordofan, and more frequently afterwards at the 
eastern slope of Abyssinia. It frequents low 
bushes and forests. If in quest of food, which, 
as far as could be ascertained, merely consists of 
roots, it creeps on its bent fore-feet, and in this 
posture digs up the roots of plants by means of 
its huge corner teeth. It likewise moves on in 
this posture, by allowing its hind legs to push the 
body forward. The natives of Massawats call it 
Flaruja, those at Kordofan, Flalluf. They do 
not eat its flesh, but travellers declare that its 
taste is not unpleasant.* 
We have now reached the American form of 
the Swine, seen in the genus Dycoteles or 
Peccaries. They vary in the number and modi- 
fied form of the teeth — in sometimes wanting 
* Creek, in Rupp. Atlas. 
