| Dentition of Wild Boar. |
The hogs, unlike other pachyderms, are noted for their fecundity.
Incisors, 4/6 or 6/6; the lower ones slanted; the canines large and curved outwards and upwards; molars tuberculate; four toes on each foot—that is, two major and two minor, each hoofed.
[NO. 433. SUS SCROFA.]
The European Wild Boar.
NATIVE NAMES.—Guraz or Kuk, Persian.
HABITAT.—Persia and the Thian Shan mountains near Kashgar.
DESCRIPTION.—Body dusky or greyish-brown, with a tendency to black, with black spots; large mouth with long projecting tusks; the hairs of the body coarse, mixed with a downy wool; bristles on the neck and shoulders. The young are marked with longitudinal stripes of reddish colour.
The wild boar of Europe apparently extends to the limits sometimes reached by Indian sportsmen. It is found in Persia, and specimens were brought back from Kashgar by the Yarkand Mission in 1873-74. The only divergence which these specimens showed from the European boar was the darker colour of the feet and legs, which were nearly black.