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THE STORY OF THE WILD BOAR. 
eros, hang about the shoulders and rump. It is colored black, with white 
feet, and breeds true. That it has long been domesticated there can be 
little doubt; and this might have been inferred even from the circum¬ 
stance that its young are not longitudinally striped. 
The extraordinary development of the tusks in the males of the animal 
to which the Malays have given the name of Babirusa (meaning pig-deer) 
is so remarkable as to suggest at first sight the idea of a malformation. The 
babirusa, which is an inhabitant of Celebes and Boru, and is the sole repre- 
WILD HOG OF THE PHILIPPINES. 
sentative of its genus, has, indeed, derived its name from these-abnormally- 
developed tusks, which have led the Malays to liken them to the antlers 
of the deer. In the boars the upper tusks, while curving upwards like those 
of an ordinary wild pig, instead of protruding from the margins of the jaws, 
arise close together near the middle line of the face, and thence, after being 
directed upwards for a short distance, sweep backwards, frequently coming 
into contact with the surface of the forehead, and are then finally directed 
