. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 61: THE BOSCH YANK. A naval officer who had experienced several encounters with this creature, spoke of it with great respect, and seemed to hold its warlike abilities in some awe. The adult male Baby- roussa is considerably larger than the boar of England, and the officer above mentioned told me that he had seen them "as large as donkeys. It is a very good swimmer, and will take to the water for its own gratification, swimming considerable distances without any apparent effort. The

. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 61: THE BOSCH YANK. A naval officer who had experienced several encounters with this creature, spoke of it with great respect, and seemed to hold its warlike abilities in some awe. The adult male Baby- roussa is considerably larger than the boar of England, and the officer above mentioned told me that he had seen them "as large as donkeys. It is a very good swimmer, and will take to the water for its own gratification, swimming considerable distances without any apparent effort. The

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. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 61: THE BOSCH YANK. A naval officer who had experienced several encounters with this creature, spoke of it with great respect, and seemed to hold its warlike abilities in some awe. The adult male Baby- roussa is considerably larger than the boar of England, and the officer above mentioned told me that he had seen them "as large as donkeys. It is a very good swimmer, and will take to the water for its own gratification, swimming considerable distances without any apparent effort. The skin of the Babyroussa is rather smooth, being sparsely covered with short bristly hairs. The object of the upper tusks is at present unknown, although certain old writers asserted that the animal was accustomed to suspend himself to branches by means of the appendage. The Babyroussa lives in herds of considerable size, and is found inhabiting the marshy parts of its native laud.. BABYROUSSA.—Parvus ' The Bosch Vark, or Bush Hog, of Southern Africa is a very formidable animal in aspect as well as in character, the heavy, lowering look, the projecting tusks, and the callous protuberance on the cheek, giving it a ferocious expression which is no way belied by the sa age and sullen temper of the animal. The Bosch Vark inhabits the forests, and is generally found lying in excavations or hollows in the ground, from which it is apt to rush if suddenly disturbed, and to work dire vengeance upon its foe. In color it is extremely variable, some species being of a uniform dark brown, others of a brown variegated with white, while others arc tinged with bright chestnut. The young is richly mottled with yellow and brown. For the following account of the habits of the Bosch Vark I am indebted to Captain Dray- son's MS. •• Where the locality is sufficiently retired and wooded to afford shelter to the bush bucks which I have mentioned, we may generally expect to find traces of the Bu