57 2 2^ Hiftory ^/ANIMALS, 
produce as far as twenty pigs at a litter. All the writers on animals have defcribed 
it. They call it Aper, Sus, and Sus domefticus. It is frequent to fee hogs with 
undivided hoofs ; thefe have been defcribed as a diftind fpecies, under the name 
of Sus ungulis fimplicibus, but this is only an accidental variety 5 the naked African 
hog, and the Chinefe hog, though defcribed alfo as diftind fpecies, are of the fame 
kind, only varieties of the common hog. 
Sus dorfo pone fetofo y cauda nuda . 
The Sus, with the back brijily be -- %\)t %tllttlCil.ll JJ^OCL 
bind , and with a naked tail1 
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This is of the fize of our common hog : the head is very long; the fnout trunca¬ 
ted and flat} the eyes are fmall, and the ears are remarkably long, and pointed at the 
extremity: the neck is fhort and thick j the body alfo is very thick and clumfy • the 
iegs are fhort, but remarkably bony and ftrongj the tail is very long, and has no 
hairs upon it. 
ihe whole creature is of a dulky and difagreeable brownifh-red colour ; the back 
is not all the way furnifhed with briftles, as in the European hog, but only has them 
on the hinder part, toward the infertion of the tail* 
This is a native of many parts of South America ; it is not only wild in the woods, 
but is kept tamp about houfes, for the fake of it’s flefh, which is equal to that of our 
hog. The writers on the Brafilian animals have defcribed it, and from them others. 
Ray and moil of the moderns have called it Porcus Guinienfis, the Guinea Hog. 
Sus dorfo cyfifero , cauda nulla . 
The Sus , with a cyfl on the back , and with no tail 
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This is fmalier than the common hog, but in mod: refpeds it greatly refembles it 
in formj it meafures about two feet in length, from the crown of the head to the 
rump, and it is confiderably thick, in proportion : the head is long and flender, as in 
our hog; the eyes are fmall, and feem in a manner buried in the head : the eyes are 
two inches and a half long, ered, and pointed at the extremity: the neck is fhort and 
thick, the body corpulent} the legs fhort and robuft, and formed perfedly like thofe 
of our hog, and the feet cloven in the fame manner, but it is Angular that it has no 
tail: the whole body is of a dufky iron-grey colour, and the hair is ftiffer, and more 
rigid than in our hog, the whole deferving the name of briftles, and every hair being 
variegated with annular marks of a blackifh and a deep grey, in fome with annules of 
a dufky white } it is from the combination of thefe that the general grey colour arifes. 
The bridles are ftiQrteft on the lower part of the lides, and they thence become gra¬ 
dually longer to the top of the back, where there is a ridge of them of about five in¬ 
ches long, and in all refpeds perfedly refembling the common hog’s briftles. 
On the middle of the head there arifes a kind of creft, compofed of a large clufter 
of briftles} thefe are very rigid, and are in general black, and on the middle of the 
back there is a kind of cyfta. gland, with an opening at the upper part, in which there 
is fecreted a perfumed fluid matter of a mixt fmell, between that of mufk and civet. 
This lingular creature is a native of Mexico ; it’s flefh is efteemed at table, but it is 
a cuftom to cut out the perfumed gland on the back, as foon as the creature is killed, 
otherwife it is faid to communicate it’s fcent in a very difagreeable manner to the flefh. 
Molt of the writers on quadrupeds have named it. Marcgrave and others call it Ta- 
jacu} Ray after Tyfon, and others after him, Aper Mexicanus mofchiferus, or the per¬ 
fumed Mexican Boar, 
