SURY4-1TELOKANAM, a household ceremony of the Brahmanical Hindus, in which an infant, when four months old, is taken out of doors and shown the sun.
SUS, the hog or swine genus of mammals of the family Suidw.
Kbaniir, . 141A.p., PERS. Dukar MAHE.
Baraba, . BENG., SANsK. Babi utan, . MALAY. Indian wild boar, . Exc. Babi alas, Babi, . „ Hog, Ghrishvi, . . . SANSK.
Chenos, . . . GR. Varaha, . . . . „ Hazir, HER. Wahl/a, . . . SINGH.
Jangli Sur, Sur, . Hum. Koka, Koku, . . . TEL.
Sus scrofa, forcus, LAT.
The wild hog occurs n many parts of Europe and in India. The males attain to a large size. It is generally believed that there is no specific difference between the wild hog of Europe and India. The adult males dwell apart from the herd. All the wild hogs in the Archipelago are small animals, compared with the wild boar of Europe, or even with that of continent-a I 'Oa.
Sus verrucosus, so called from the fleshy excres cence on the sides of the cheeks, has a grotesque and a formidable appearance, brit is in reality a, thnid animal. The number of them in Java is Sus barbatus. Mr. Blyth has distinguished from the hog common in India by a specimen 'sent to him from Ceylon, the sku'll of which approaches in form to that of a species from 13orneo, the Sus barbatus of Muller.
Bobirussa of F. envier takes ,its naine from two Malay wordS, Babi, hog, and Rusa, a deer.
It is the Sus babirnasa of Litirwus, aml the 13. alfurus of Lesson, and occurs in the islands of Bum or Boum-a, one of the laolucc,as, and in Celebes and Ternate.
Porcula sylvaufa, liodgson, the pigmy hog of the sal forests of N. India, i4 the Sam) barrel and Chota sur of the natives of India. It con fines itself to the deep recesses of primeval forest. The adult males abide constantly with the herd, and are its habitual and resolute defenders.
Of the hog in Asia, there are Sus Kraal Linn., var. S. Indieus, Bengalensis, AndamensiS, Malayensis, Zeylanensis, Babirussa, and Papuensis. Sus leucomystax, of Japan and Formosa.
Sus scrofa, Linn.
Sus Indicus, Jerd. I S. vittatus, Schlegel.
S. cristatus, !Vaguer. 1 Handi, Alikka, . . CAN. 1 Boorra Janwar,Sur,Dusn.
Jevadi, . . . . „ 1 Dukur, . . . MAnn.
The Indian wild hog differs considerably from the German, though not sufficiently so to con stitute a species. The head of the former is longer and more pointed, and the plane of the forehead straight, while it is concave in the European. The ears of the former are small and pointed, in the latter larger and not so erect. The Indian is altogether' a more active-looking animal ; the German has a stronger, heavier appearance. The same differences are perceptible in the domestic ated individuals of the two countries. 1Vhen the wild boar of India, the Sus Indicus, has the run of cultivated lands, it eat,s daintily. Bat when stinted for food, it will revel on a dead camel ; and in Cutch, when pressed by want, it prowls around the villages in search of refuse.
The wild boar of India is shot and hunted with dogs by natives, bnt the British sportsmen in India hunt it with the horse and spear ; and undoubtedly, of all the wild creatures in India, the jungle boar exacta from its pursuers the greatest care. Sus Indica, tho common wild boar, is sup posed to be the parent of one of the two groups into which pigs are arranged. The Sus scrota group or breed is known as the Chinese breed, and extends into Europe, N. Africa, and Hindu stan ; but in the latter country the boar of the NAV. Provinces is not higher than inches, though that of Bengal attains 44 inches. .
The Roman or Neapolitan pig, the domes ticated breeds of China, Cochin-Ohina, Siam, the Andalusian, Hungarian, the swine of S.E. Europe and Turkey, and the Swiss, are all of the Sus Indica group, which, it is said by a Chinese author, can be traced back for 4900 years. The Japan masked pig is the Sus pliciceps of Gray, and has deeply-plicated or furrowed skin. According to Dr. Kelaart, there are two species or varieties Ceylon,—the Newera Elia boar, and the low country S. Zeylonensis.—Sykes' Cat. Deck. Mum. p. 11 ; Crawfurd, Diet. ; Tennent's Ceylon, p. 59 ; Horsfeld's Cat.; Forest Ranger ; Darwin ; Mac Voyoye.