TAPIRELLA. 87 



does not render any support to the body. The young of the Tapirs 

 are sometimes spotted or streaked with white. In the Andes there is 

 one species that in its choice of locality differs widely from its rela- 

 tives, as it makes its abode in elevated tracts of several thousand feet 

 altitude; and, probably as a protection against the low temperature 

 of these lofty heights, has the skin covered with hair. 



Fam. V. Tapir idle. Tapirs. 

 32. Tapirella. 



T 3-3. pLZl- pl=4. M ^ A2 

 H-3' U M ; *S-3' M -3-3~ 42 - 



Tapirella Palmer, Science, 1903, p. 873. (May.) 



Elasmognathus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1865, p. 183. 

 (nee Fieber, Hemiptera.) Type Elasmognathus bairdi Gill. 



"Supra-maxillaries. swollen above and in front of the infraorbital 

 foramina, and thence extend upward and backward into a squa- 

 mous portion, which embraces with its fellow a thick, bony nasal 

 septum continuous with the vomer, and which is elevated to a line with 

 the forehead, and has a widened upper edge, which still further 

 enlarges behind and embraces the nasal bones. The grooves for the 

 muscles of the proboscis are in front, straight, entirely confined to 

 the f rentals, and do not encroach upon the supra-maxillaries ; while 

 behind they describe a spiral curve around a pit between the nasals 

 and frontals." (Gill 1. c.) 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



A. Nose elongated, projecting beyond the mouth, 

 flexible; body stout, heavy. 



a. Frontals not advancing between nasals. PAGE 

 Young spotted or streaked T. bairdi 87 



b. Frontals advancing and separating nasals. 



Young not spotted or streaked T. dowi 88 



65. bairdi (Elasmognathus}, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1865, 



p. 183- 

 BAIRD'S TAPIR. 



Type locality. Isthmus of Panama. 



Geogr. Distr. Southern Mexico to Panama. 



Gcnl. Char. "Nasals well developed, each ossified from a single 

 center, separate through life, thick at their base, and articulated 

 with one another for the greater part of their length." 



Color. Dark reddish brown; throat and breast solid white; 

 cheeks chestnut; ears margined with white. (Immature specimen.) 



