babyroussa or babiroussa

[A name given by Bontius. [In Fr. babirou e; Port, babirosa, babiru a. A species of hog, sometimes called the Horned Hog and the Hog-deer, from the fact that its upper tusks, BABYROUSSA. which are of great length and curved in form, piercing through the upper lip, grow upwards and backwards, like the horns of a ruminant. It has longer legs than those of the coinmon hog. Its native country is the Indian Archipelago, yet it seems to have been known to the ancients. It is the Sus babyru a of Linnæus, now called Babyru a alfurus . Its flesh is good eating.