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



is found in Peru on the eastern slope of the Cordilleras, at an elevation 

 of 7000 or 8000 feet, which is above the snow-line. He had never 

 been able to see it, but thinks it is probably Tapirus roulini. 



De Blainville, in his monograph of Tapirs in the • Osteographie,' 

 gives a figure of the skull sent to the Paris museum by M. Roulin 

 and of the younger one sent by M. Goudot, under the name of T. 

 pinckacus. 



In my monograph of the Tapirs in the ' Proceedings of the Zoolo- 

 gical Society' for 1867, p. 884, I used this name, and gave an abstract 

 of M. Goudot' s paper as the only one derived from a personal exa- 

 mination of the animal. 



I am not aware that any other remains of this animal but the two 

 skulls in Paris exist in any museum in Europe or America. It is very 

 desirable that specimens should be obtained from Columbia for the 

 purpose of comparison with the specimens brought home by Mr. 

 Buckley, to discover if the differences are real or only rest on the 

 inaccuracy of the French observers : therefore it is much to be 

 regretted that Mr. White failed in obtaining specimens for the Zoo- 

 logical Society. Since we obtained Mr. Buckley's specimens I have 

 been offered for sale a skin from Ecuador ; the writer informed me 

 he had two skins, one of which he intended to present to the Smith- 

 sonian Institution ; so that we may hope for more specimens from 

 Ecuador ; but as yet we have received none from Columbia. 



If this species is from Columbia, which is yet to be determined by 

 the comparison of specimens from that country, it will bear the 

 following synonyma : — 



Tapirus pinchacus. 



Tapir "pinchaque," Cuvier, Ann. Sci. Nat. xvii. p. 107 (1829). 



Tapir pinchaque, Roulin, Ann. Sci. Nat. xviii. (1829), p. 206, t. i. 

 (animal), t. ii. f. 1, 2, 3 (skull) ; Goudot, Comptes Rendus, torn. xvi. 

 p. 331 (1843). 



Tapirus roulini, Fischer, Synops. Mamm. Add. p. 406 (1829) ; 

 Wagner, Schreber's Saugethiere, vi. p. 392 ; White & Sclater, P. Z. S. 

 1870, p. 51. 



Tapirus villosus, Wagler, Syst. des Amphib. p. 17 (1830). 



Tapirus pinchacus, Blainville, Osteog. TJngul. t. i. f. 5 ; Gray, 

 P. Z. S. 1867, p. 884 ; id. Cat. Cam. Pach. et Edent. p. 259. 



Hab. Cordilleras of Columbia. 



Tapirus leucogenys. (The Grey-cheeked Tapir.) (Plate XXI.) 



The adult is black, covered with close harsh hair, slightly grizzled 

 at the tip ; the head rather paler ; the sides of the temple, cheeks, 

 from the back of the eye to the base of the ears, and upper part of 

 the sides of the neck, and whole underside of the head, ashy white 

 varied with black ; upper and lower lips pure white ; ears with scarcely 

 any indication of white edges, and covered with hair like the top of 

 the head, but paler. 



The rump in the old and younger specimens is uniformly covered 

 with hair similar in colour, abundance, length, and texture to the rest 



