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to each foot; they had also, like the Tapirs, a short fleshy proboscis, for 
the muscles of which instrument the bones of the nose were shortened, 
leaving a deep notch underneath. We discovered the bones of this genus 
mixed with those of the Anoplotherium in the gypsum quarries (a) near 
Paris. They also exist in many other parts of France. 
Eleven or twelve species are known already. At Paris alone we 
find them the size of a Horse, of a Tapir, and of a small Sheep, 
while near Orleans are found the bones of_a species that must have 
been as large as the Rhinoceros. ‘These animals appear to have 
frequented the shores of lakes and marshes, for the rocks which con- 
ceal their bones also contain fresh water shells. See my Oss. Foss. 
tomeELT.. Phe 
Lornuiopon, Cuv., 
Is another lost genus, which appears to be closely allied to the preceding 
one; its inferior grinders, however, have transverse ridges. Ten or twelve 
species have been extracted from our old fresh water formations, the same 
in which the Paleotherium is found. See my Oss. Foss., tom. ITI. 
To these genera should succeed the genus 
Tarir, Lin. 
The Tapirs, in which the twenty-seven molars, before they are worn, 
all present two transverse and rectilinear prominences; in front, there are, 
in each jaw, six incisors and two canines, separated from the molars by an 
empty space. The nose resembles a small fleshy proboscis; there are 
four toes to the fore feet, and three to the hind ones. For a long time 
but a single species was known, 
T. americanus, L.; Buff. Supp. VI. i. (The American Tapir). 
Size of a small Ass; skin brown and nearly naked: tail moderate; 
neck fleshy, forming a sort of crest on the nape. Common in wet 
places, and along the rivers in the warm parts of South America. 
The young ones are spotted with white like the fawn. The flesh is 
eaten. 
Within a few years a second species has been discovered in the 
old continent. 
T. indicus, Farkharie, Sot. Asait., tom. XIV.; Horsfield, Jay. 
Miaba, Fr. Cuv. Mammif. (The Tapir of India). Larger than 
that of America, of a black-brown; the back of a whitish grey. It 
inhabits the forests of Malacca, island of Sumatra, &c. 
(& (a) These quarries occur in detached hills, along the course of the Marne 
and Seine, near Paris, and they consist of alternating beds of gypsum and argillace- 
ous with calcareous marl. The animal alluded to, is of the size of the horse, is 
supposed by Cuvier to have inhabited marshy ground, and to have fed on the roots 
and stems of succulent plants. Another animal is mentioned by Cuvier, as re- 
sembling inits size, and light figure, the Antelope; this species he considers to have 
browsed on aromatic plants, or on the buds of young trees; it was probably, con- 
tinues Cuvier, a timid animal, with large moveable ears, like those of the deer, 
which could be sensible to the slightest sound that indicated danger.—En«. Ep. 
