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Show 1868.] DR. J. E. GKAY ON THE SUIDAE. 39 and others, which has very short thin legs, with the belly almost to the ground. I have not seen this variety. A young boar from Algiers. Rusty brown ; hair black, with long rusty ends. Nose, orbits, edge of ears, and a longitudinal streak on the whiskers black. Chest nakedish. No warts on the cheeks. Ears moderate, densely hairy. Hab. Algiers (B.M.; Henry Christy, Esq.). Skull in the British Museum (no. 713 r). This animal lived some time in the Society's Gardens. The skull is short, with a flat forehead and nose like a Domestic Pig. It is, in many respects, very like the Cochon de Siam of Buffon. (2) Pore noir ii jambe courte, F. Cuv. Sus scrofa domestica meridionalis, Fischer, Syn. M a m m . 422. Hab. Italy. Black. Ears small, nearly erect. A fold over the eyebrow. Var. sinensis. Sus scrofa sinensis, Brisson, R. A. 108 ; Erxl. 181. Chinesische schwein, Linn. West Goth. 62. Small. Black, white, or variegated. Back nakedish. Body very large ; legs very short and thin. A short-headed, swollen-cheeked, full-bodied Pig, with short thin legs, like our prize Pigs, was well known to the ancient Greeks. There are several representations in marble of such Pigs in the British Museum that were procured from the Temenos of Demeter Cnidus, and are inscribed "Pig sacred to Persephone," by Captain Spratt. These models chiefly differ from the form of the English prize Pig in the back being furnished with a well-marked, high compressed crest of bristles from the crown of the head to the tail. Similar Pigs are represented on Greek silver coins. Long-legged, flat-sided sows with their young are represented among the reeds on the Assyrian Marbles in the Museum Collection. The Pigs naturalized in Para and Pernambuco are black, like the Berkshire or Chinese breeds, with very thin legs, short nose, and thick cheeks. They were introduced from Portugal. In Rio they send the Pigs out in tbe marshy places to destroy the snakes before the negroes are turned in to cultivate the land; they eat the snakes greedily, and are said never to be injured by the bite of a snake, however poisonous. Var. Wattled, with a cylindrical wattle on the hinder corner of the lower jaw on one or both sides. Hab. Irish Greyhound Pig (Richardson on Pigs, 30). Var. Solid-hoofed Pigs, with two front toes united into one hoof. Sus scrofa monongulus, Linn. Anim. v. 461. S. ungulis solidis, Plini. H . N. x. 146. S. scrofa mononyx, Fischer, Syn. 423. Solid-hoofed sow, Struthers, Edinb. N . P. Journ. 1863; Blainv. Osteogr. p. 128 ; Darwin, Dom. Anim. ii. 75. |