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  Tapirus 
  hairdi 
  [sic], 
  Sclater, 
  Proc. 
  Zool, 
  Soc. 
  London 
  (1872), 
  p. 
  635, 
  pi. 
  51, 
  1872. 
  — 
  

   Gaumer, 
  Monograffa 
  de 
  los 
  mamiferos 
  de 
  Yucatdn, 
  Mexico, 
  p. 
  43, 
  1917 
  

   (Yucatan, 
  Mexico; 
  British 
  Honduras). 
  

  

  Tapirus 
  dowi 
  [sic], 
  Alston, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  London 
  (1879), 
  p. 
  666, 
  1880 
  (com- 
  

   ments; 
  range 
  probably 
  restricted 
  to 
  Pacific 
  slope 
  of 
  Guatemala 
  and 
  Nic- 
  

   aragua). 
  — 
  Alston, 
  Mammalia, 
  in 
  Godman 
  and 
  Salvin, 
  Biologia 
  Centrali- 
  

   Americana: 
  Zoology, 
  p. 
  104, 
  pi. 
  8, 
  figs. 
  3-5, 
  1882 
  (part; 
  description, 
  characters, 
  

   bibliographic 
  references; 
  figure 
  pi. 
  9=7", 
  terrestris). 
  

  

  Tapirus 
  bairdii, 
  Alston, 
  Mammalia, 
  in 
  Godman 
  and 
  Salvin, 
  Biologia 
  Centrali- 
  

   Americana: 
  Zoology, 
  p. 
  101, 
  pi. 
  8, 
  figs. 
  1, 
  2, 
  1882 
  (description, 
  characters, 
  

   bibliographic 
  references). 
  — 
  Simpson, 
  Bull. 
  Amer. 
  Mus. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  vol. 
  86, 
  

   pp. 
  37-80, 
  pi. 
  8, 
  fig. 
  2, 
  1945 
  (osteological 
  characters; 
  comparisons; 
  phylogeny). 
  

  

  [Tapirella] 
  dowi 
  [sic], 
  Simpson, 
  Bull. 
  Amer. 
  Mus. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  vol. 
  86, 
  p. 
  41, 
  foot- 
  

   note, 
  1945 
  ("specific 
  status 
  does 
  not 
  appear 
  to 
  be 
  demonstrated"). 
  

  

  Tapirella 
  hairdii, 
  Goldman, 
  Smithsonian 
  Misc. 
  Coll., 
  vol. 
  69, 
  p. 
  81, 
  1920 
  (Pan- 
  

   ama). 
  — 
  Goodwin, 
  Journ. 
  Mamm., 
  vol. 
  27, 
  p. 
  91, 
  1946 
  {dowii 
  a 
  synonym); 
  

   Bull. 
  Amer. 
  Mus. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  vol. 
  87, 
  p. 
  450, 
  1946 
  (Costa 
  Rica: 
  Talamanca 
  

   and 
  Pacuare, 
  Lim6n; 
  Carillo, 
  San 
  Jos6). 
  — 
  Hatt, 
  Cranbrook 
  Inst. 
  Sci. 
  Bull. 
  33, 
  

   p. 
  72, 
  1953 
  (Mexico: 
  Acttin 
  Lara, 
  Yucatdn; 
  extinct). 
  

  

  Lectotypes. 
  — 
  Of 
  bairdii 
  Gill, 
  skull 
  only, 
  adult, 
  USNM 
  6019, 
  collected 
  

   April 
  9, 
  1863, 
  by 
  W. 
  T. 
  White 
  (one 
  of 
  two 
  cotypes 
  designated 
  by 
  Poole 
  

   and 
  Schantz, 
  U. 
  S. 
  Nat. 
  Mus. 
  Bull. 
  178, 
  p. 
  233, 
  1942); 
  of 
  domi 
  Gill, 
  

   skull 
  only, 
  young 
  adult, 
  USNM 
  11278, 
  collected 
  by 
  J. 
  M. 
  Dow, 
  

   original 
  number, 
  1 
  (one 
  of 
  five 
  cotypes 
  designated 
  by 
  Poole 
  and 
  

   Schantz, 
  loc. 
  cit.) 
  

  

  Type 
  localities. 
  — 
  Of 
  hairdii 
  Gill, 
  "Isthmus 
  of 
  Panama," 
  here 
  re- 
  

   stricted 
  to 
  Canal 
  Zone, 
  Panamd; 
  of 
  dowii 
  Gill, 
  "Guatemala," 
  believed 
  

   by 
  Alston 
  (Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  London, 
  1879, 
  p. 
  666, 
  1880) 
  to 
  be 
  "confined 
  

   to 
  the 
  Pacific 
  slope 
  of 
  Guatemala 
  and 
  Nicaragua." 
  Later, 
  Alston 
  

   (Mammaha, 
  in 
  Godman 
  and 
  Salvin, 
  Biologia 
  CentraU- 
  Americana: 
  

   Zoology, 
  p. 
  105, 
  1882) 
  quoted 
  Godman 
  and 
  Salvin 
  as 
  follows: 
  "On 
  the 
  

   Pacific 
  coast 
  [of 
  Guatemala! 
  Tapirs 
  are 
  no 
  doubt 
  abundant. 
  In 
  the 
  

   forest 
  of 
  the 
  hacienda 
  of 
  El 
  Overo, 
  a 
  few 
  leagues 
  from 
  the 
  port 
  of 
  San 
  

   Jos6, 
  the 
  proprietor, 
  Don 
  Juan 
  Viteri, 
  assured 
  us 
  that 
  they 
  were 
  to 
  be 
  

   found 
  in 
  plenty. 
  He 
  it 
  was, 
  we 
  beheve, 
  who 
  supplied 
  Captain 
  Dow 
  

   with 
  the 
  original 
  specimens 
  of 
  T. 
  dowi 
  [sic]." 
  Accordingly, 
  the 
  type 
  

   locality 
  of 
  dowii 
  is 
  here 
  restricted 
  to 
  the 
  Pacific 
  slope 
  of 
  Guatemala. 
  

  

  Distrihutian. 
  — 
  As 
  for 
  the 
  subgenus. 
  According 
  to 
  Hatt 
  (Cranbrook 
  

   Inst. 
  Sci. 
  Bull. 
  33, 
  p. 
  72, 
  1953), 
  who 
  recorded 
  skull 
  fragments 
  from 
  

   caves 
  in 
  southern 
  Yucatan, 
  "tapir 
  has 
  not 
  been 
  known 
  in 
  Recent 
  

   time 
  from 
  this 
  part 
  of 
  Yucatfin." 
  In 
  Panam^ 
  the 
  species 
  is 
  known 
  to 
  

   range 
  from 
  sea 
  level 
  to 
  the 
  summits 
  of 
  the 
  highest 
  ridges 
  of 
  the 
  eastern 
  

   and 
  western 
  mountains. 
  Ohver 
  Pearson, 
  who 
  climbed 
  to 
  the 
  top 
  of 
  

   the 
  Volc»4n 
  de 
  ChiriquI 
  in 
  1937, 
  foimd 
  well-worn 
  tapir 
  trails 
  at 
  3,350 
  

   meters 
  altitude, 
  near 
  the 
  very 
  summit 
  of 
  the 
  peak. 
  (See 
  map, 
  fig. 
  62.) 
  

  

  In 
  northwestern 
  Colombia, 
  east 
  of 
  the 
  Rio 
  Atrato, 
  Baird's 
  tapir 
  

   lives 
  side 
  by 
  side 
  with 
  Tapirus 
  terrestris 
  colombianus. 
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