192 NATURAL HISTORY IN ANECDOTE.

seven feet five inches in girth. Its weight was eight hundred
and fifteen pounds. These limits have, however, often been
exceeded, a hog bred in Cheshire measuring nine feet eight
inches including tail, and standing four feet six inches in
height. This animal weighed 1,215 pounds when killed.
Hampshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire, and Yorkshire have all fine
breeds which supply the larders of-the United Kingdom with
prime bacon. The sucking pig has been deemed a dainty
dish even from Roman times. The babiroussa belongs to
Bouru and Celebes, and is gregarious. Its habits are similar
to those of the wild hog, which the male rivals and even
surpasses in size. It has tusks attached to both the upper
and the lower jaw, which bend backwards with a graceful curve.

The Peceary. The Peccary belongs to South America where
it is indigenous. There are two species, the Collared Peccary
and the White-lipped Peccary. The collared peccary is a
timid, inoffensive animal about three feet long, and distin-
guished by white bands which traverse the shoulders and
meet at the neck. They associate in pairs or small families
and live in holes and hollows. The white-lipped peccary
herds in large numbers, migrating apparently in regular order
in companies sometimes a thousand strong. , These animals
are very fierce when attacked, and the hunter has little chance
of escaping them unless he can find shelter in a friendly
tree. Many stories are told of hunters who have sought
such asylum, and who have been kept treed many hours.
by peccaries who, regardless of the mortality of their com-
rades, have lingered round the trunk.

The Camel and The history of the Camel carries us back
the Dromedary. to the age of the great patriarchs, and gives
‘him some claim to be regarded as a patriarch himself. He
belongs to Egypt and Arabia, where he is indispensable to the
desert ranger, and where no longer found in a wild state,
he takes rank as a domestic animal. His uses are several.
As a beast of burden he is invaluable, while the milk of the