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Title: The museum of natural history, with introductory essay on the natural history of the primeval world : being a popular account of the structure, habits, and classification of the various departments of the animal kingdom, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, shells, and insects, including the insects destructive to agriculture
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Richardson, John, Sir, 1787-1865 Dallas, W. S. (William Sweetland), 1824-1890 Cobbold, T. Spencer (Thomas Spencer), 1828-1886 Baird, William, 1803-1872 White, Adam, 1817-1879 Kellogg, Remington, 1892-1969, former owner. DSI Library of Congress, former owner. DSI
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: London Glasgow Edinburgh : William MacKenzie
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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tail is about a foot long and tufted at theextremity. THE PAPTJAN BOAR (Sris Papuensis), or Bene, is asmaller species, scarcely exceetling half the length ofthe preceding, and of a much more slender build. Itis tolerably abmidant in the forests of New Guinea.The superior canines are comparatively feeble, resem-bling the incisors. The liide is clothed with short,stoutish bristles, which are ringed with black andwhite, the skin of the young pig is brown, the backbeing marked by five yellowish bands. In the youngstate these animals are captured and reared by tlionatives for food ; the pork being highly esteemed, notonly by themselves, but by European colonists also. THE BABYEOXTSSA (Bahirussa alfurus) is an in-liabitant of Celebes, Bourou, and other easterly islandsof the Indian Archipelago. By the natives it isabsurdly called the stag-hog, from its standing ratherliigh upon its legs; and the erroneous figure given by Pisoin his edition of the Natural History of East Ii;dia, Fig. 73.
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The Babyroussa (Babirussa alfurus J. by Bontius, is calculated to give force to this palpablemisnomer. The jaws are furnished with thirty-tnOteeth; that is, eight incisors, four canines, and twentymolars. The canines of the upper jaw are enormouslyenlarged in tlio male; and, ascending from their sockets, which are also directed upwards, they arch over tlioface, their cro-wns being directed backwards and down-wards. The corresponding tusks of the lower jaw arealso very conspicuously developed (fig. 73). The caninesare not enlarged in the female, and she exhibits a more IJO SUID.E.- -MAMMALIA.- -SUID/E. slender build generally. So far as we are aware, theuse of the large tusks in the male have not been satis-factorily explained. Those of the lower jaw are doubt-less intended as defensive and offensive weapons ; butas the superior pair often recurve sufliciently to touchthe forehead, they cannot prove very formidable instru-ments of attack. It seems scarcely enough to say thatthey are

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