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visible toes to each foot ; they had also, like the Tapirs, a short 

 fleshy proboscis, for the muscles of which the bones of the nose were 

 shortened, leaving a deep notch underneath. We discovered the 

 bones of this genus pele-mele with those of the Anoplotheriura in 

 the gypsum quarries near Paris. They also exist in many other 

 parts of France. 



Eleven or twelve species are known already. At Paris alone 

 we find them of the size of a Horse, of a Tapir, and of a small 

 Sheep, while near Orleans are found the bones of a species that 

 must have been as large as the Rhinoceros. These animals 

 appear to have frequented the shores of lakes and marshes, for 

 the rocks which conceal their bones also contain fresh water 

 shells. See Cuv., Oss. Foss., tom. III. The 



LOPHIODON, Cuv., 



Is another lost genus, which appears to be closely allied to the pre- 

 ceding one ; its inferior grinders, however, have transverse ridges. 

 Ten or twelve species have been extracted from our old fresh water 

 formations, the same in which the Palaeotherium is found. See my 

 Oss. Foss., tom. III. 



To these genera should succeed the genus 



* Tapir, Lin., 



In which the twenty-seven molars, before they are worn, present 

 two transverse and rectilinear prominences ; in front, there are, in 

 each jaw, six incisors and two canini, separated from the molars by 

 an empty space. The nose resembles a small fleshy proboscis ; 

 there are four toes to the fore feet, and three to the hind ones. For 

 a long time but a single species was known, 



T. americanus^ L.; Buff". Supp. VI, i. (The American Tapir.) 

 Size of a small Ass j skin brown and nearly naked j tail moder- 

 ate J neck fleshy, forming a sort of crest on the nape. Common 

 in wet places, and along the rivers of the warm parts of South 

 America. The young ones are spotted with white like the 

 fawn. The flesh is eaten. 



Within a few years a second species has been discovered in 

 the eastern continent. 



T. indicus, Farkharie, Soc. Asiat., tom. XIVj Horsfield, Jav. 

 Miaba, Fr. Cuv. Mammif. (The Tapir of India.) Larger than 

 that of America, of a black-brown ; the back of a whitish grey. 

 It inhabits the forests of Malacca, Sumatra, Sec. 



Fossil Tapirs are also scattered throughout Europe ; and 

 among others is a gigantic species, which in size must have 



