CATALOG OF TYPE SPECIMENS OF MAMMALS 233 



182157. Skin and skull. Young adult male. Archers Post, 

 Northern Guaso Nyiro River, British East Africa [ = Kenya]. 

 September 23, 1911. Collected by Edmund Heller. Original 

 number 2466. 



Flat skin in good condition ; skull Grade A. 



Family TAPIRIDAE: Tapirs 



Genus TAPIRELLA Palmer 



*Elasmognathus bairdii Gill. 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 17: 183, presented at meeting of Oct. 10, 

 1865. 

 = Tapirella bairdii (Gill). See Elliot, Field Coliimb. Mus. Publ. 95 (zool. ser. 4, 



pt. 1) : 87, 1904. 

 6019. Skull, no skin. Isthmus of Panama. Collected by W. T. 

 White. Cataloged April 9, 1863. 



Skull Grade B. 



Gill designated no type specimen. His description was based on two 

 skulls, adult and young, collected on the Isthmus of Panama by W. S. 

 White. Two such specimens, adult and immature, are now in the National 

 Museum, cataloged April 9, 1863. The adult should be regarded as the type. 

 In the original description. Gill speaks of the vomer and the nasal septum, 

 both of which are lacking in the younger specimen (No. 6020) but well 

 developed in the adult. 



*EIasmognathus dowii Gill. 



Amer. Journ. Sci. and Arts (ser. 2) 50: 142, 1870. 

 =Tapirella dowii (Gill). See Elliot, Field Columb. Mus. Publ. 95 (zool. ser. 4, 



pt. 1 ) : 88, 1904. 

 11278. Skull, no skin. Nearly adult. Guatemala. Collected by 



J. M. Dow. Original number 1. Cataloged July 19, 1870. 



Skull Grade B. 



Type not designated by number. The original description refers to skulls 

 of four adults and one young in the Smithsonian collection, all obtained 

 by John M. Dow. These five specimens are catalog Nos. 11278-9, 11280-1-2, 

 bearing the original numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. The title of Gill's article is 

 "A New Species of Tapir, from Guatemala." However only one of the 

 skulls came from Guatemala, namely, the first. No. 11278, and that one shows 

 the reduced fused nasals emphasized in the description better than any 

 of the others. This specimen is plainly marked "Guatemala" in old lettering 

 on the skull. The four others are marked "Salvador, C. A." In the catalog 

 its locality was first entered as "Salvador, C. Am." ; but the word "Salvador" 

 now has a line drawn through it and "Guatemala" written above it. The 

 other four are marked "Salvador." There is no doubt, therefore, that No. 

 11278 must be regarded as the type. 



