. Records of big game : with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . hey are invariably reddish, and form a dis-tinct race, P. c. nyascu. Height at shoulder about 3 i inches ; weight,3 5 lbs. Lower tusks average 6 to y inches long. Distribution.—South and South-East Africa. Upper. ;tli. Lower. Exposedfrom gum. Owner. .3i 6i Rhodesia Hon. Waller Rothschild 4i^ Africa . F. Vaughan Kirl)y. Height .Itshoulder. Weight. 35 ll)s. Shire River, British Central Dr. Iercy Rendall. measurements The RED RIVER-HOG (Pot
. Records of big game : with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . hey are invariably reddish, and form a dis-tinct race, P. c. nyascu. Height at shoulder about 3 i inches ; weight,3 5 lbs. Lower tusks average 6 to y inches long. Distribution.—South and South-East Africa. Upper. ;tli. Lower. Exposedfrom gum. Owner. .3i 6i Rhodesia Hon. Waller Rothschild 4i^ Africa . F. Vaughan Kirl)y. Height .Itshoulder. Weight. 35 ll)s. Shire River, British Central Dr. Iercy Rendall. measurements The RED RIVER-HOG (Potamochoerus porcus). In this species the prominences on the skulls of adult boars areflat-topped, and do not reach above the line of the nose ; the colour isalways some shade of rufous, either shining brownish red with a tingeof yellow, or dark reddish yellow with black on the forehead, ears, andlimbs, and the mane of the back, part of the margins of the ears, thetips of the long tufts of hairs with which they are surmounted, andstreaks above and below the eyes white. Distribution.—West Africa. FOREST-HOG 457. Head of Forest-Hug. Shot by J. W . Vardley. The FOREST-HOG (Hylochoerus meinertzhageni). A huge black pig serving in some respects to connect the bush-pigswith the wart-hogs, although markedly distinct from both. Height atshoulder, 26 ins.; weight, i 16 lbs. clean (Major P. H. G. Powell-Cotton). Distribuiio7i.—Kenia and the Nandi Forest, but represented by anallied species or race in the Eastern Cameruns, and a third in theIturi Forest. Upper Tusks. TotalLength. Protrudingfrom gum. Circum-ference. Locality. Owner. 91/ 4i Nandi Forest . Hon. Walter Rothschild. 8i 4l Mount Kenia . J. W. Vardlcy n Do. Lower Tusks. E. Home. 9 I Si/ ^ Nandi Forest . Hon. Walter Rothschild. si 3 Mount Kenia J- ^V. Vardlcy • i\ A Do. E. V>. Home. 458 RECORDS OF BIG GAME
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