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THE HORSE. 



The Malay tapir is the largest of the genus, and 

 distinguished from all others by its peculiar colora- 

 tion, the head, neck, fore and hind limbs being glossy 

 black and the intermediate part of the body white. 

 The demarkation of the two colors is distinctly de- 



FIG. 8. The American Tapir (Taplrus americanus). 



From a photograph by Mr. GamMer Bolton of an animal living in the 

 Zoological Gardens, London. 



fined. The white of the body does not quite meet 

 below, a median dark line intervening. All the 

 American species are of a nearly uniform dark brown 

 or blackish color when adult ; but it is a curious cir- 

 cumstance that when young (and in this the Malay 

 species agrees with the others) they are conspicuously 



