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



If this specimen should be proved to be the proper young of T. 

 leucogenys, it shows that there is less difference between the two 

 sections of the genus in the very young than in the half-grown and 

 adult animals. 



Mr. Buckley brought a young male striped specimen from Macas 

 (No. 13). This animal evidently belongs to the same section as T. 

 terrestris, but it is so different from the young of that species that it 

 is certainly a very distinct local variety or else a distinct species of 

 that animal. It may be thus described : — 



Tapirus ecuadorensis. (Plate XXII. fig. 2.) 



Young blackish brown; throat, lower part of cheeks, chest, and 

 belly yellow. Back with two interrupted lines, or narrow longitu- 

 dinal stripes, rather diverging from one another, and near together on 

 the shoulders and rump. Sides with four more or less interrupted 

 yellowish streaks, the uppermost one with two oblique, elongated 

 stripes in front, and a much longer, longitudinal stripe behind. The 

 second one with one oblique, elongated spot in front, and with a very 

 long streak ascending across the thighs to the base of the tail, with 

 an oblique streak from the former, at the front of the thigh, continued 

 to the rump. The two lower series of spots on the sides and thighs 

 formed of very unequally long spots, those on the shoulders being very 

 obliquely placed. The fore legs with one or two oblong transverse 

 spots on the upper part, and the hinder ones with unequal, different- 

 sized spots to the base of the toes. The edges of the ears and a few 

 small spots under and behind the eyes white. 



Hah. Ecuador, Macas, on the river Macas, one of the branches of 

 the Upper Amazons. 



The nose, the whole upper part of the head, and the back of the 

 neck are dark brown like the rest of the body, very unlike the many- 

 spotted head of the young T. terrestris ; and it looks like a bigger 

 animal than that species. 



Tapirus terrestris. (Plate XXII. fig. 3.) 



The young of T. terrestris in the British Museum, which has no 

 particular habitat, is very differently marked. It has two nearly con- 

 tinuous stripes on the middle of the back, which are united and 

 arched behind on the loins, with some transverse spots above and 

 below it. There are two longitudinal stripes on the upper part of 

 each side, which unite behind and are continued in a single line to 

 the upper part of the base of the tail. The whole head, the upper 

 part of the neck, the sides, the outside of the fore and hind legs, and the 

 inside of the feet are covered with very differently sized, shaped, and 

 disposed white spots, those on the shoulders and thighs being elon- 

 gate, those on the lower part of the sides being elongate and obliquely 

 placed, and those between the upper lateral stripes and on the head 

 and neck very small as compared with the others on the chin, the 

 throat, the whole chest, and the under part and the inner side of the 

 fore legs. 



