THE TAPIRS 



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although the young are striped and spotted after the manner of the Asiatic species. 

 The snout is shorter than in the latter, the hinder part of the head more elevated, 

 and the crown of the head and neck furnished with a short, stiff, upright mane. 

 The margins of the ears are white. This species inhabits the forest districts of 

 Brazil, Paraguay, and the northern part of Argentina. The second member of this 

 group is Roulin's tapir (71 roulini), which is a mountain species inhabiting the 

 Cordilleras of Ecuador and Colombia at an elevation of from seven thousand to eight 

 thousand feet above the sea, and locally known as the pinchaque. It has a less 





THE AMERICAN TAPIR. 



(One-sixteenth natural size.) 



vaulted skull and a rounder neck, without a distinct crest, than the lowland species, 

 from which it is further distinguished by the presence of a long white spot on the 

 chin. 



The two remaining species are Baird's tapir ( T. bairdi}, ranging from Mexico to 

 Panama, and Dow's tapir (T. dowi), restricted to Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Costa 

 Rica, which constitute a second group of the genus distinguished by the charac- 

 teristics of the skull. In all the three species of the first group, as seen in the figure 

 of the skeleton given on p. 1041, the nasal cavity is perfectly open in advance of the 

 roofing bones of the skull; but in those of the second group this cavity is divided by 



