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Show 28 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE SUIDAE. [J 716/. Skull of adult male. Length 15, height 8 | inches. Nepal; B. H . Hodgson, Esq. 716 6. Skull of adult male. Length 13, height 8f inches. India ; General Hardwicke. 716 y. Skull of adult male. Length 14, height 9 inches. India ; G. H. Money, Esq. 716 x. Skull of adult male, broken. India Museum, Zoological Society. 716 Z. Skull of adult male. Length 13, height 9 inches. Nepal; Tarai; Professor Oldham. 716 e. Skull of adult male. Length 13£, height 8 inches. "Wild Boar of the plains." Nepal; B. H . Hodgson, Esq. Forehead nearly flat. 716 o\ Skull of adult male. Length 14, height 8| inches. "Wild Boar of the Plains." Nepal; B. H . Hodgson. 716 n. Skull of adult female. Length 14f, height 8 | inches. India; Professor Oldham. 716 v. Skull of nearly adult female. Length 12\, height 7\ inches. Neilgherries. Sus affinis, Gray, Cat. Osteol. 71, 1847. 716 c. Skull of young male ? Length 13, height 7\ inches. Tarai, Nepal; B. H . Hodgson, Esq. 716 w. Skull of young male. Length 10, height 6f inches. Tarai, Nepal; B. H. Hodgson, Esq. Sus bengalensis, Blyth (type). 716 m. Skull of young female. Length 101, height 7\ inches. Tarai, Nepal; Dr. Oldham. 716 q. Skull of young female. Length , height inches. Nepal; B. H. Hodgson. Nose much narrower and contracted behind in front of the orbit, perhaps the character of the female sex. The skulls of female exotic Pigs are very rare in collections. This series of skulls differ in the depth of the concavity on the hinder part of the cheeks in front of the orbit. It is very deep, and with a well-defined wide ridge behind in 716 o, 716 v, and 716 k. It is less marked in the others, in different degrees of distinctness and depth. In the skulls of the younger animals the concavity is very shallow behind, and gradually shelving off to the orbit, as in 716c, 716 w, 7\6m,716q,7l6x. It is one of these skulls (716 w) that Mr. Blyth marked as like his type of S. bengalensis. The skull of this species is like that of Sus verrucosus from the Malay Islands; but all the skulls differ from the skulls of S. verrucosus in the flatness of the zygomatic arch, compared with the thick swollen form of the zygoma in all the skulls of that species. The sides of the lower jaw are convex and swollen, but not so much so as the lower jaw of S. verrucosus. b. Concavity on the cheeks of the skull in front of the orbit shallow behind, only separated from the orbit by a narrow ridge. G. SUS TIMORENSIS. Yellowish or blackish brown, generally with a white streak from |