884 dr. j. k. gray on the tapikid^. [nov. 14, 



3. Tapirus pinchacus. 



" Neck round, without fleshy crest. Body covered with very close 

 blackish-brown hair, which is darker at the tips. Chin with a white 

 spot, which is elongated behind, and bent up to the middle of the lip." 



Tapirus pinchaque, Roulin, Ann. Sci. Nat. xvii. 1829, p. 107 ; 

 Wagner, Schreb. Saugeth. vi. p. 392; Goudot, Cornpt. Rend. A. S. 

 Paris, xvi. 1843, p. 331. 



T. pinchacus, Blainv. Osteog. Onguhg. t. 1-5. 



T. roulini, Fischer, Syn. Mamm. p. 606 ; Giebel, Saugth. p. 182. 



T. villosus, Fischer. 



Hub. Cordilleras. 



Shall, as figured by De Blainville, depressed behind, the crest 

 being nearly straight over the brain-case ; the nasal bone is elongate, 

 acute over the hinder part of the orbit ; the front edge of the cavity 

 of the internal nostril is in a line with the back edge of the sixtii or 

 penultimate grinder in the complete series ; the space between the 

 canines and grinders is rather longer than the length of the outer 

 side of the first two grinders ; the occipital end of the skull low, 

 broader than high ; the lower jaw is nearly straight beneath. 



I have never seen this s[)ecies, and only know it from M. Roulin's 

 description and the figures of the two skulls in De Blainville's 

 ' Osteographie.' 



2. Rhinochcerus. 



The internasal cartilages ossified at the hinder part ; the bony 

 plate extending above nearly the whole length of the nasal, not so 

 far below ; foramen maximum subquadrangular, large. Occipital 

 crest very broad, flat-topped. Forehead and crown broad. Lower 

 jaw straight beneath. 



Hub. Asia. 



Rhinochcerus, part., Wagner. ' 



1. Rhinochcerus suMATRANUs, The Kuda, Ayer. B.M. 



Fur very short, black ; back and sides white. 



Tapirus indiciis, Desm. Mam. p. 411 ; F. Cuv. Oss. Foss. iii. 

 p. 297, t. 69, 70 ; Giebel, Siiugeth, p. 183 ; Blainv. Osteogr. Ongulig. 

 t. 1-5. 



2\ sumatranus. Gray, Med. Repos. p. 1821. 



T. malat/anus. Raffles, Linn. Trans, xiv. p. 270; Grifiilh, A. K. 

 iii. i. ; Horsf. Zool. Journ., Zool. Java, t. ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones, 

 B. M. p. 276. 



T. bicolor, A.Wagner, Schreb. Saugeth. vi. p. 400. 



Cuvier (Oss. Foss.) states that the Malay Tapir was discovered in 

 India by M. Duvaucel. It does not inhabit India ; and M. Du- 

 vaucel only knew the animal from the drawing of it that was in 

 General Hardwicke's collection, from a specimen obtained by Major 

 Farquhar in Malacca, and from a skull which he obtained from 

 the same source. 



