232 Miscellaneous. 
separate class among the Vermes, through which the latter will as 
it it were hold out a hand to the Vectebuste: as already, by other 
types, to the Infusoria, Echinodermata, Mollusca, and Arthropoda. 
The group of Vermes is daily showing more and more the character 
of being the origin of all the animal kingdom.—Mém. Acad. Imp. 
de St. Pétersb. 1866; Bibl. Univ. 1867, Arch. Sci. pp. 249-251. 
On the external characters of the Young of the Central American 
Tapir. (Elasmognathus Bairdii, Gill). By A. E. Verriwu. 
This remarkable animal has hitherto been known only by its 
skull, and a skeleton, not entirely complete, belonging to the 
Smithsonian Institution. The Museum of Yale College has recently 
been so fortunate as to receive from J. H. Sternberg, Esq., a specimen 
of the young animal, preserved entire in alcohol. This individual 
is a female, and is supposed by Mr. Sternberg to have been about 
three months old in April. He states that its weight is not more 
than that of the head of the adult, one head that he formerly ex- 
amined weighing 82 pounds. 
Its entire length is 31 inches; nose to occiput 11; nose to eye 
4°25; nose to incisor teeth 1°5; eye to ear 3:2; lower jaw 6°5; 
length of ear 3°5; breadth 2°5 ; tail from vent, not ‘including hair, 2. 
The legs are short and stout ; the tail small and inconspicuous. 
The head, viewed frgm the side, i is elongated oval, from above elon- 
gated triangular, the sides nearly straight, the nose truncated. In 
advance of and above the eyes the sides of the nose are compressed 
and concave, with a slight depression on its ridge. Beyond this the 
snout is enlarged, and convex both on the sides and above; the tip 
papillose and slightly decurved, which gives it a truncated appearance. 
The nostrils are large, oval, placed obliquely at the end of the nose, 
about halfan inch long, the inner angles separated about a quarter of 
an inch, the margins thickened. The nose itself is quite flexible and, 
apparently, capable of extension. The ears are large and prominent, 
broad oval, rounded at the end. The hair is rather fine and soft, 
about an inch long on the body, and half as long on the head, where 
it is not so thick. 
The general colour is bright reddish brown, the head darker 
above. The lips and end of the nose, bordering the naked black 
tip, are white. Five interrupted narrow white stripes pass along 
each side of the nose, the upper one extending over and beyond the 
eye. The cheeks have several larger patches of whitish, one of 
which is under the eye; a larger white spot is on the throat. The 
ears are dark brown, lighter at the outer base, the tips and several 
unequal spots on the outside white. The back and sides are 
marked by longitudinal rows of yellowish-white patches, which 
partially blend into continuous stripes on the sides. There are in all 
about ten of these stripes. The underside of the body is uniform 
yellowish grey. The legs are darker brown than the body, and 
marked by numerous transverse bands and spots of white.—Sil/iman’s 
American Journal, July 1867. 
