The hides of the dun are highly prized, both for their intrinsic value, and as proofs of skill and courage, so much so that you shall hardly buy a skin for all the money you may offer; and the horns are likewise trophies.

The white or dun bull is the monarch of our forests.
Four kinds of wild pigs are found.

The most numerous, or at least the most often seen, as it lies about our enclosures, is the common thorn-hog.

It is the largest of the wild pigs, long-bodied and flat-sided, in colour much the hue of the mud in which it wallows.

To the agriculturist it is the greatest pest, destroying or damaging all kinds of crops, and routing up the gardens.