THE ANDAMAN PIG. 
Sus andamanensis. 
Plate XNII. 
The Andaman Islands lie off' the Burmese Coast, in the middle of the Bay of Bengal, arid were, until lately, 
little known, except as the abode of a peculiar race of degraded savages of rather doubtful origin. Within 
the last few years, however, a penal settlement for the convicts of our Indian Empire has been established at 
Port Blair, on one of the islands. An intercourse has thus sprang up with Calcutta, which has enabled 
Mr. Blyth, late Curator of the Asiatic Society's Museum in that city, to obtain specimens of many of the 
zoological products of this hitherto terra incognita. A considerable portion of these turned out to be new to 
Science, and amongst them was the present species of Pig, which was first noticed by Mr. Blyth in -the 
Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for 1858, under the name Sus andamanensis * 
The Andaman Island Pig is at once remarkable, amongst its brethren of the same genus, for its very 
shortened profile, short rounded body, and small ears and limbs. It is thickly covered with short black hair, 
and has somewhat the general appearance of an American Peccary. 
The Society’s original specimen of this animal, which is believed to have been the first ever imported into 
Europe, alive or dead, was obtained through Mr. Blyth. Mr. Blyth, we believe, received it through Lieut.-Col. 
K. C. Tytler, a well-known Indian Naturalist, lately Governor of the settlement at Port Blair. Other 
examples of the same species have since been received through the exertions of Dr. John Anderson, Curator 
of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, who acts as Honorary Agent for the Society in that city. 
* Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, xxvii., p. 267. 
