THE AMERICAN TAPIR. 



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sense of smell, enabling it to detect its enemies at long distances, when it at once rushes into brush- 

 wood or thicket so dense that neither man nor horse can follow. It never attacks man without being 

 very hardly pressed and brought to bay. 



AMERICAN TAPIRS. 



It is excessively fond of the water, being a most expert swimmer, and usually keeping to a 

 particular track in the element in which it indulges. 



The American species is characterised by having the general colour throughout of a deep brown, 

 approaching to black ; but the sides of the lower lip, band on the under a ad middle part of the chin, 



