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Novif. Zool. vol. iv, p. 595, 1904, Game Animals of Africa, p. 66. 

 1908, Horse and its Belatives, p. 220. 1912; Griffini, Le Zebre, 

 p. 16, (1912) 1913. 

 Asinns somalicus, Matschie, Monatslt(ftc natarwiss, XJnterriclit 

 Scludgatt. vol. ii, p. 306, 1909. 



Typical locality Berbera district of Somaliland. 



86. 1. 25. 9. Skin. Near Berbera ; collected Ity Herr 

 J. Menges. Co-type of E. a. somaliais. Purchased, 1880. 



86. 2. 17. 1. Skin and skeleton. Same locality and 

 collector. Co-type of E. a. somalicus ; figured Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1884, pi. iv. Same historij. 



92. 4. 8. J. Skin. Berbera; collected by Lieut.-Col. 

 H. G. C. Swayne. Presented hj Dr. P. L. Sclater, 1892. 



93. 6. 26. 1. Skin, mounted. Shebeli Valley, Somaliland. 

 Presented hj Lievt.-Gen. Sir A. H. Paget, K.C.B., 1893. 



Family II.— TAPIRID.^. 

 Genus TAPIR US. 



Tapirus, £rmo?i, Begiie Animal, p. 118, 1756; Cuvier, Tabl. Elem. 



Hist. Nat. p. 152, 1798; Parker, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 775; 



Flower and Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mus. B. Coll. Surg. pt. ii, p. 381, 



1884; Flower, The Horse, p. 43, 1891. 

 Tapir, Blumcnbacli. Handhiich Naturgeschichte, vol. i, p. 129, 1779; 



Zimmcrmann, Geogr. Geschichte, vol. ii, p. 153, 1780; Gmelin, 



Linn.'s Si/st. Nat. vol. i, p. 216, 1788; Gri^tli, Animal Kingdom, 



vol. iii, p.' 339, vol. v, p. 293, 1827. 

 Tapyra, Liais. Climats Geol. p. 397, 1872. 



1. Subgenus ACROCODIA. 



Pihinochterus. Waglcr, Syst. Nat. Amphih. p. 19, 1830, ])artiin (invalid, 

 teste Goldman) ; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 884, Cat. Carni- 

 vora, etc. Brit. Mus. p. 259, 1869. 



Acrocodia, Goldman, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. xxvi, p. 65, 

 1913. 



I. TAPIRUS (ACROCODIA) INDICUS. 



Tapirus indicus, Desniarest, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. vol. xxxii, p. 458, 

 1819, Mammalogic, Yol. ii, p. 411, 1822; F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. 

 Mamm. pl.cceiii, 1825; Giebel, Sdugethiere, p. 183, 1855; Flower 

 and Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mas. B. Coll. Surg. pt. ii, p. 383, 1884; 

 Flower, The Horse, p. 46, 1891 ; Flower and Lydeklrr, Study of 

 Mammals, p. 371, 1891; W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mtis. 

 pt. ii, p. 198, 1891 ; Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Mamm. p. 478, 



