﻿PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  UNITED 
  STATES 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION 
  

  

  U. 
  S. 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Vol. 
  103 
  Washington: 
  1954 
  No. 
  3329 
  

  

  MAMMALS 
  OF 
  NORTHERN 
  COLOMBIA, 
  PRELIMINARY 
  

   REPORT 
  NO. 
  7: 
  TAPIRS 
  (GENUS 
  TAPIRUS), 
  WITH 
  A 
  

   SYSTEMATIC 
  REVIEW 
  OF 
  AMERICAN 
  SPECIES 
  » 
  

  

  By 
  Philip 
  Hershkovitz 
  

  

  All 
  known 
  New 
  World 
  species 
  of 
  tapirs 
  occur 
  in 
  Colombia. 
  Repre- 
  

   sentatives 
  of 
  the 
  Brazilian 
  tapir 
  {Tapirus 
  terrestris) 
  were 
  secured 
  in 
  

   northern 
  Colombia 
  by 
  the 
  ^vriter 
  during 
  his 
  1941-1943 
  tenure 
  of 
  the 
  

   Walter 
  Rathbone 
  Bacon 
  Travelling 
  Scholarship. 
  The 
  mountain, 
  or 
  

   woolly, 
  tapir 
  (Tapirus 
  pinchague), 
  originally 
  described 
  from 
  the 
  

   Bogotd 
  region 
  in 
  Colombia, 
  is 
  found 
  in 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  temperate 
  zones 
  of 
  

   Colombia 
  and 
  Ecuador 
  and 
  does 
  not 
  range 
  into 
  coastal 
  provinces. 
  

   Baird's 
  tapir 
  {Tapirus 
  hairdii), 
  the 
  largest 
  indigenous 
  land 
  mammal 
  

   of 
  the 
  Neotropical 
  region, 
  is 
  here 
  recorded 
  for 
  the 
  first 
  time 
  from 
  

   South 
  America. 
  The 
  author 
  discovered 
  the 
  coexistence 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  

   with 
  the 
  Brazilian 
  tapir 
  in 
  northwestern 
  Colombia 
  while 
  conducting 
  

   the 
  Chicago 
  Natural 
  History 
  Museum-Colombian 
  Zoological 
  Expedi- 
  

   tion 
  (1949-1952). 
  A 
  woolly 
  tapir 
  was 
  also 
  taken, 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  described 
  in 
  

   this 
  paper. 
  A 
  fourth 
  species, 
  Tapirus 
  indicus, 
  the 
  only 
  other 
  living 
  

   form 
  of 
  tapir, 
  is 
  Asiatic 
  in 
  distribution. 
  

  

  ' 
  Previous 
  reports 
  in 
  this 
  series 
  have 
  been 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  Proceedings 
  of 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  National 
  Museum 
  as 
  

   follows: 
  

  

  1. 
  Squirrels, 
  vol. 
  97, 
  August 
  25, 
  1947 
  

  

  2. 
  Spiny 
  rats, 
  vol. 
  97, 
  January 
  6, 
  1948 
  

  

  3. 
  Water 
  rats, 
  vol. 
  98, 
  June 
  30, 
  1948 
  

  

  4. 
  Monkeys, 
  vol. 
  98, 
  May 
  10, 
  1949 
  

   6. 
  Bats, 
  vol. 
  99, 
  May 
  10, 
  1949 
  

  

  6. 
  Rabbits, 
  vol. 
  100, 
  Ma;, 
  26, 
  1950 
  

   Ebbata: 
  In 
  No. 
  6: 
  Bats, 
  measurements 
  given 
  for 
  Olossophaga 
  soricina 
  soricina 
  on 
  page 
  438 
  are 
  misleading 
  

   because 
  of 
  a 
  transposition. 
  On 
  line 
  25, 
  foi 
  "head 
  and 
  body" 
  read 
  "total 
  length," 
  for 
  "tail" 
  read 
  "head 
  and 
  

   body," 
  for 
  "hind 
  foot" 
  read 
  "tail," 
  for 
  "ear" 
  read 
  "hind 
  foot", 
  and 
  add 
  "ear, 
  16-16 
  mm." 
  

  

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