TAPIRELLA. 87 
does not render any support to the body. The young of the Tapirs 
are sometimes spotted or streaked with white. In the Andes there is 
one species that in its choice of locality differs widely from its rela- 
tives, as it makes its abode in elevated tracts of several thousand feet 
altitude; and, probably as a protection against the low temperature 
of these lofty heights, has the skin covered with hair. 
Fam. V. Tapiridz. Tapirs. 
32. Tapirella. 
13; C=; P= a — 42. 
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Tapirella Palmer, Science, 1903, p. 873. (May.) 
Elasmognathus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1865, p. 183. 
(nec Fieber, Hemiptera.) Type Elasmognathus bairdi Gill. 
‘“‘Supra-maxillaries swollen above and in front of the infraorbital 
foramina, and thence extend upward and backward into a squa- 
mous portion, which embraces with its fellow a thick, bony nasal 
septum continuous with the vomer, and which is elevated to a line with 
the forehead, and has a widened upper edge, which still further 
enlarges behind and embraces the nasal bones. The grooves for the 
muscles of the proboscis are in front, straight, entirely confined to 
the frontals, and do not encroach upon the supra-maxillaries; while 
behind they describe a spiral curve around a pit between the nasals 
and frontals.”’ (Gill 1. c.) 
EY TO THE. SPECIES. 
A. Nose elongated, projecting beyond the mouth, 
flexible; body stout, heavy. 
a. Frontals not advancing between nasals. PAGE 
Mange Spotted or streaked... 2... ee eee eee T.bairdt 87 
b. Frontals advancing and separating nasals. 
Moune. not spotted or streaked...............-. T.dowi 88 
65. bairdi (Elasmognathus), Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1865, 
p. 183. 
Bairp’s TaPir. 
Type locality. Isthmus of Panama. 
Geogr. Distr. Southern Mexico to Panama. 
Genl. Char. ‘‘Nasals well developed, each ossified from a single 
center, separate through life, thick at their base, and articulated 
with one another for the greater part of their length.”’ 
Color. Dark reddish brown; throat and breast solid white; 
cheeks chestnut; ears margined with white. (Immature specimen.) 
