638 CLASS xvu. 



small mobile proboscis. Tail very short. (Dental formula OWEN, 

 . 3-3 1-1 4-4 3-3 

 L 5^|!' C 'l-l' P '3^3' ri< 3^3~ 



Sp. Tapirus americanus auctor., Tapirus suillus BLUMENBACH, WAGN., 

 BUFF. Suppl. vi. PL I. SCHREB. Sdugth. Tab. 319, Cuv. R. Ani., ed. ill., 

 Mammif. PI. 82, fig. 3; the tapir, Anta, Mborebi (AZARA Essais, I. pp. 

 I 17); this animal lives in South America, principally in the neighbour- 

 hood of the east coast, in woods and moist places on the banks of rivers ; 

 it attains a length of from five to six feet. Another American species that 

 lives on mountains was found some years ago by ROULIN, Ann. des Sc. not. 

 xvm. 1829, pp. 26 56, PI. i. 2, Tapirus viUosusVfAGL., SCHREB. Sdugth. 

 Tab. 319 B. Tapirus malayanus HORSF., Tapirus indicus F. Cuv., Tapi- 

 rus bicolor WAGN., HORSFIELD Zool. Res. in Java, No. i. SCHREB. Sdugth. 

 Tab. 319 A, GUER. Iconogr., Mammif. PI. 39, fig. 2; larger than the two 

 preceding species, the back white backwards ; at Sumatra and the peninsula 

 Malacca. 



Fossil species of Tapir occur in tertiary formations. Tapirus giganteus 

 of COVIER belongs to the genus Dinotherium KAUP, which with the molars 

 of the tapir has also two very large tusks in the lower jaw directed down- 

 wards. It belongs to the tertiary period. By OWEN it is classed with the 

 Proboscidea. 



Note. Palceotherium Cuv. (A fossil genus of the tertiary 

 strata, related to tapir, with all the feet tridactylous.) 



Sp. Palceotherium magnum, Pal. medium, &c. Comp. Cuv. Ann. du Mus. 

 Tome in. iv. vi. ix. xn., Rech. s. les Oss. foss. in. 3ieme e"dit. pp. i 258. 

 On other fossil genera of this division omitted here consult PICTET. 



Family XIV. Solidungula. Feet with a single perfect toe, 

 covered by a broad hoof, without supplementary hoofs. Incisors 

 in a continuous series in both jaws ; molar teeth complex. Two 

 inguinal mammae. 



Equus L. Incisors ~ , canines T^JT or none, molars in adults 



(\ fi 



- , in younger individuals with a small anterior molar, deciduous 1 . 



Mane at the neck. 



All the species of the genus horse belong to the old world, and are at 

 home on the wide mountain-plains of Asia and Africa. They live together 

 in troops, are very swift, and feed chiefly on species of grass. The intes- 

 tinal canal is wide and long ; they have a simple stomach, a large ccecum, 

 and no gall-bladder. 



1 In young horses there is in both jaws a small anterior molar (wolf-tooth of Dutch 

 writers); see L. BOJANI Adversaria ad dentitionem Eqidni generis et ovis domestics 

 spectantia; Nov. Act. Acad. Cces. Leop. Car. XII. 1825, pp. 697 sqq. 





