262 EctuiD^. 



The young animal is described by Mr. Verrill as above quoted; 

 and the description is printed in the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History ' for 1867, xx. p. 232. 



The animal is similar to the Brazilian Tapir externally ; indeed 

 all the naturalists and zoologists who have observed it at Costa llica 

 regarded it as the same as that species until the skull was examined ; 

 and it is said that one was exhibited alive in the Jardin d'Acclimata- 

 tion at Paris for some time as a Brazilian Tapir ; but it is easily 

 distingiushable by the bay cheek and white chest. 



A large number of fossil genera belong to this suborder, as Ano- 

 plotherium, Xiplwdon, DicJiotriclnts, Cainotherkmi, Merycopotmmis, 

 Aclapis, Mic7-oclicerus, Hippos, Cholieoiherium, Palceotliermm, Ste- 

 reognathus, Gymototherium, Lophiodon, ThoracotJierion, Anthracoihe- 

 rion, Corypliodon ; but many of these are only known from a few 

 bones or teeth. 



Dr. Burraeistor gives a restoration of MacraucJienia (Annales, 

 p. 252, t. 12) with a slender, short, cylindrical nasal trunk; but 

 there does not appear to be anything in the form of the nasal 

 organs of the skull to give any authority for the existence of a pro- 

 boscis, not even such a small one as is figured. 



Suborder 2. SOLIDUNGULA. 



Nose rounds soft, simple. Neck elongated. Upper lip 

 prehensile. Cutting-teeth in each jaw normal, erect. Ca- 

 nines normal or wanting. Toes single (formed of two united 

 together) and covered with a single hoof; no false hoofs. 

 Stomach simple. 



Eqiuis, Linn. 



Solidungula, Illiger, Prodr. i. p. 84. 

 Solipedes (Solidipedes), Cuvier, Rhg. Anim. 

 Equidaj, Bonap. Prodr. Mastol. 



Fam. 2. EQUID^E. 



Two middle toes soldered into one, covered with a single hoof ; 

 lateral toes subequal. Teeth 40 : cutting-teeth |^ ; canines \ .\; 

 grinders -[? . f ; in milk series, grinders f . ^ ; premolars ^. Gullet and 

 stomach simple. ' Using the hind feet in defence. 



Quadriipeda Solipeda seu Solidungula, Rai. Syn. p. 62. 

 Soliduii^iilii, Illiyer. 

 Mam. .luinenta, Storr. 

 Solidipedes, Cuvier. 



EquidfB, Oray, Lond. Med. Repos. xv. p. 307 ; Cut. Manim. B. M. 

 p. 262. 



