On the domestic pig of prehistoric times in Britain, and on the mutual relations of this variety of pig and Sus scrofa ferus, Sus cristatus, Sus andamanensis, and Sus barbatus / by George Rolleston.
- George Rolleston
- Date:
- 1876
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the domestic pig of prehistoric times in Britain, and on the mutual relations of this variety of pig and Sus scrofa ferus, Sus cristatus, Sus andamanensis, and Sus barbatus / by George Rolleston. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![Slaxll of young female^ Sics cristatus. Britisli Museum, 716 to. Terai, Nepal; Dr. Oldham.” Height of lacrymal IT in.; malar border 0’75 in. Skull of adidt female, Sus cristatus, 716??. Britisli Museum. ^Mndia; Professor Oldham.” Height of lacrymal OT in.; malar border 0'7 in. Skull of young female, Sus cristatus, about 9 months old. Britisli Museum, 716 q. “ Nepal; B. H. Hodgson.” Height of lacrymal 0'9 in.; malar border O'75 in. Indian pig, Sus cristatus, British Museum, 7\Qg, under 5 months of age, very convex frontals, slightlv tumid lacrymo-frontal ridges. Height of lacrymals 0'5 in.; malar border 0'25 in. Indian pig, Sus cristatus, British Museum, 716 v. Nearly adult female, Nilgherris.” Height of lacrymal 0'95 in. ; malar border 0'6 in. Young male of Sus inclicus] in collection of British Museum, not catalogued; ivith 3rd molar just coming into use—that is to say, about 18 months old. Height of lacrymal 0'9 in.; malar border 0'9 in. Skull of Indian MTld Hog, Sus cristatus, no. 3.251 a. Royal College of Surgeons of England. This is the skull of an adult male probably, the complexity of the posterior lobe of the 3rd molars being very great. The naso-frontal suture resembles that of Sus scrofa rather than that of Sus cristatus. The lacrymo-frontal ridge is very largely developed. Height of lacrymal O'l in.; malar border 1'25 in. Skull of Indian MTld Hog, Sus cristatus, no. 3251 b, R. C. S. England. Skull of Indian Wild Hog, Sus cristatus, no. 3251 c. R. C. S. England. Height of lacrymal O'l in., malar border 0'95 in., in both. These two skulls were probably from the same distinct as no. 3251 a; but they differ from it, and agree with all the other specimens of Sus cristatus, in having the height and the malar length of the lacrymal subequal. Skull of Wild Sow from Andaman Islands, Sus undamanensis, no. 1514 h, Oxford University Museum. Height of lacrymal 17 mm.; malar border 8 mm.; adult. Skull of Sics vittatus from Amboyna. Alfred Russel Wallace, Esq. British Museum, 1362 c.” An adult male with a nearly straight naso-frontal suture, and a convex fronto-parietal region. Height of lacrymal 0'55 in.; malar border 0'8 in. Sus vittatus. British Museum, 1362/. “Skull of animal developing the hinder molar.” The lacrymo-frontal ridges are convex, the frontal region is flat, the naso-frontal suture, however, is straight, as in S. cristatus. Height of laci'ymal 1'05 in.; malar border 0'6 in. II. Sus scrofa, Ywr.ferus, and its allies. “ Sus libycus.” British Museum, 713 «. Asia Minor, Xanthus [Sir Charles Fdlowes). The skull is very distinct from all the skulls of the Wild Boars from Germany in the British Museum.” The animal was just about 18 months old: its interectorbital region is still convex; but it has no very marked lacrymo-frontal ridge; its naso-frontal suture is convex backwards, as in Sus scrofa, var. ferus ; its nasals are 8 in. long, as against 14| of total skull-length; and the height of the lacrymal is less than its inferior length. Here it resembles Sics scrofa rather than Sus cristatus. Height of lacrymal 1 in.; malar border 0'15 in.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22463471_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
