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visible toes to each foot; they had also, like the Tapirs, a short 
fleshy proboscis, for the muscles of which the bones of the nose were 
shortened, leaving a deep notch underneath. We discovered the 
bones of this genus péle-méle with those of the Anoplotherium in 
the gypsum quarries near Paris. They also exist in many other 
parts of France. 
Eleven or twelve species are known already. At Paris alone 
we find them of 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 conceal their bones also contain fresh water 
shells. See Cuv., Oss. Foss., tom. III. The 
Lopuiopon, Cuv., 
Is another lost genus, which appears to be closely allied to the pre- 
ceding 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. III. 
To these genera should succeed the genus 
Tapir, Lin., 
In which the twenty-seven molars, before they are worn, present 
two transverse and rectilinear prominences ; in front, there are, in 
each jaw, six incisors and two canini, 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 moder- 
ate neck fleshy, forming a sort of crest on the nape. Common 
in wet places, and along the rivers of 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 eastern continent. 
1. indicus, Farkharie, Soc. Asiat., tom. XIV; Horsfield, Jav. 
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, Sumatra, &c. 
Fossil Tapirs are also scattered throughout Europes; and 
among others is a gigantic species, which in size must have 
