484 DR. J. E. GRAY ON A NEW TAPIR. [Mar. 5, 



9. A very young, brown-cheeked, many-spotted, white-throated 

 Tapir from Sunia. Mr. Buckley says that this specimen was in the 

 company of the above adult female (No. 1), and he was enabled to 

 capture it because she would not leave the young one, which he con- 

 siders to be the young form of the grey-cheeked species. I am sorry 

 to doubt this account, because, on comparing the skulls, the brain- 

 case is globular and the line of the upper surface over the brain-case 

 is arched as in Tapirus terrestris, very unlike the flat-topped skull of 

 the grey-cheeked species. The spots are much more numerous and 

 very differently disposed from those of the half-grown specimens with 

 the grey cheeks ; and the cheeks are brown, very unlike the cheeks 

 of all the other older specimens of the grey-cheeked species. It 

 would imply that the colour of the cheeks and the form and position 

 of the spots alter as the animal increases in age. 



3, 5, & 7. An adult male and female and a half-grown grey- 

 cheeked specimen from Asuay, to the north-west of Macas. 



13. A young striped male from Macas, on the river Macas or 

 Maron, one of the branches of the Upper Amazons. 



The restricted genus Tapirus may be divided into two sections 

 according to the shape of the skull : — 



I. The brain-case of the skull flattened, with a straight top, and 

 gradually raised above the plane of the nose. 



1. Tapirus pinchacus. Blackish. "Young many-spotted and 



striped ; cheeks brown." 



2. Tapirus leucogenys. Cheeks and underside of the head 



ashy white. Young with three or four interrupted stripes on 

 the sides. 



II. The brain-case of the skull convex, rounded, the upper line 

 arched, suddenly raised above the plane of the nose {cheeks 

 brown). 



3. Tapirus terrestris. 



The young specimens of this division, I think, indicate that there 

 is more than one species confounded under this name, which I am 

 inclined to separate. 



Tapirus pinchacus. 



M. Roulin discovered, about 1828, a species of Tapir on the Parana 

 ou Quindiu and Suma Paz, during his residence at Bogota in New 

 Granada. 



He sent a specimen of the skull to Paris, which is figured by M. 

 Blainville. M. Roulin sent a paper to the Academy of Sciences, 

 on which M. Cuvier made a report, which is published in the Ann. 

 Sci. Nat. vol. xviii. p. 107, 1827. 



"La tete differe de'ja a l'exterieur de celle du Tapir coinmun par 

 la forme generale, son occiput n'est pas saillant, sa nuqoe est ronde 

 et n'a point cette crete charnue si remarquable dans l'espece ordinaire; 



