SUPPLEMENT.

Having been favoured with two drawings of this animal, we are now

enabled to present a figure of the Babiroussa, (_fig. 160._) and which

we believe will give a tolerable idea of him, since it was taken with

much care, and is a combination of both; the one of them we received

from M. Sonnerat, which represented him in a standing posture, and the

other lying on its belly, was sent us from England by Mr. Pennant, with

the following label; "a Babiroussa from the island of Banda, drawn from

nature;" it is of a blackish colour, grows to the size of a large hog,

and its flesh is very good to eat.

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