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Show 1871.] MR. P. L. SCLATER ON ANIMALS IN THE MENAGERIE. 237 had all these caught, and examined their mouths, but could find no trace of incisors either above or below. Of P. eeliani, the adult female above spoken of. now in the Society's Gardens, has two well-formed incisors above and six below, just as the skull of the specimen obtained by Mr. Blanford in Abyssinia*, which is now in the British Museum. In November last Mr. Jamrach had on sale four .Elian's Wart-hogs ; and I sent Mr. C. Bartlett down to examine them, hoping to find a mate for our husbandless female. Mr. Bartlett reported to me that they were unfortunately all of the female sex; but having at m y request taken the opportunity of examining their mouths, he found that all these four animals also had " two incisors in the upper jaw and six in the lower." It appears, therefore, that in every specimen examined (eight of P. cethiopicus and five of P. eeliani), the differences of dentition usually held to separate these two species correspond with the external characters, and that P. cethiopicus (usually so called) has no incisors above and two small deciduous incisors below, whereas P. eeliani has two permanent incisors above and six below. As regards the distribution of these two species, Wagner appears to be quite correct when he comes to the conclusion that P. cethiopicus is confined to the extreme south of Africa f. Our two pairs were both received from Natal. But P. eeliani seems to be spread all over the continent, being met with in Abyssinia and East Africa generally (Riippell), Cap Verd (Buffon), Ashantee (Viv. Soc. Zool. Lond.), Guinea coast (Pel), Caffraria (Wahlberg), and Mozambique (Peters). I may add that there can be little doubt that P. eeliani ought, according to the strict laws of priority, to be called P. africanus, being the Sus africanus oi Gmelin (S. N. p. 220), based upon Buffon's " Sanglier du Cap Verd." 22. CERVUS PSEUDAXIS, Eyd. & Soul. Hitherto I have called the Formosan Deer Cervus taevanus (emended from laiouanus, Blyth). But as Mr. Swinhoe has now examined the typical specimens of Cervus pseudaxis in the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes, and convinced himself that they belong to the Formosan species"]: (as I have suggested would probably turn out to be the case, in m y article on the Deer living in the Society's Gardens §), I think it right to revert to the earlier name, and have accordingly entered this species in the new edition of the List of Vertebrates as Cervus pseudaxis. 23. CERVUS ALFREDI, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 381, pl. xxviii. The fine male Deer to which I have recently given the name of Cervus alfredi is still living in good health in the Society's Gardens. * Cf. Blanford, ' Geology and Zoology of Abyssinia,' p. 242. t Saugeth. Suppl. v. p. 511. { P. Z. S. 1870, p. 646. § Trans. Zool. Soc. vii. p. 345. |