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Show 1886 .J DR. O. PINSCH ON A NEW WILD PIG. 217 would most certainly have taken them into account as arguments in favour of his doctrine of Evolution. So far as m y own observations have extended, and each month adds new facts, there seem to be few forms of disease peculiar to Fig. 9. Ileo-csecal intussusception in a Lemur, c, colon ; i, ileum. Alan. On the other hand, certain affections occur in some animals with much greater frequency than in him, whilst a few diseases are entirely confined to them; many are also modified by peculiarity in structure, mode of life, and environment of the affected animal. * 2. O n a new Species of Wild Pig from N e w Guinea. B y Dr. O . F I N S C H , C.M.Z.S. &c. [Eeceived March 22, 1886.] The second species of true Sus from New Guinea is a very distinct one, and may be separated at once from the well-known Sus papuensis by the following characters:- Sus NIGER, sp. nov. Uniform blackish, even when youug. These characters are sufficient, in all ages, to separate the present species from Sus papuensis, which is quite different, being in the adult brown, with a very distinct light-coloured mystacal stripe and legs, while the young is rusty brown with light rusty-yellow stripes, as in our Wild Boar. PROC ZOOL. Soc-1886, No. XV. 15 |
