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viz. Rh. megarhinuSi from the older pliocene, or with one, viz. Rh. 

 Schleiermacheri, from the miocene tertiary formations. 



Genus Tapirus. 



At the period of the publication of my * History of British Fossil 

 Mammals,' 1845, no remains referable to the genus Taph'us had come 

 under my notice from any British locality ; the Tapiroid family was 

 represented only by species of Coryphodon and Lophiodon. 



The existence of a true Tapir in tertiary strata was first made 

 known by Prof. Kaup, in the miocene deposits at Eppelsheim ; an 

 almost entire under jaw and part of an upper jaw, with the charac- 

 teristic teeth of both, are described and figured, tab. 6. op. cit., 

 under the name of Tapirus priscus. Remains of a Tapir have also 

 been discovered in both miocene and old pliocene strata in Auvergne 

 and other paits of France: these fossils M. de Blainville thought 

 not to be specifically distinct from the Tapirus priscus of Kaup. 

 They are assigned, in Gervais' ' Paleontologie Fran9aise,' to a species 

 named Tapirus arvernensis (from the Puy-de-Dome), to a Tapirus 

 minor (from the pliocene sands of Montpellier), and to a Tapirus 

 Poirieri (from the miocene deposits of the Bourbonnais). 



It may seem hazardous to affirm the existence of a British fossil 

 Tapir from a single tooth, and that a lower one ; but the molar tooth 

 figured, fig. 8, from the crag-pit of Sutton, from which the upper 

 molars of the Rhinocei'os so near to, if not identical with, the Rhi- 

 noceros Schleiermacheri were obtained, bears a closer resemblance to 

 a newly risen and unworn molar of the lower jaw of the Tapirus 

 priscus, Kaup, than to any other recent or fossil tooth with which I 

 have been able to compare it. There are the same two principal 

 transverse ridges, the same low basal ridge at the fore and back 

 parts of the crown, the same slight concavity of that side of the 

 principal ridge which is directed upwards ; — the closest agreement, 

 in fact, both as to form and size, prevails. I am, therefore, led to 

 expect that the former existence of a British Tapir, probably not 

 distinguishable from the Tapiims pi'iscus, Kaup, will be confirmed 

 by subsequent discoveries of the more characteristic upper teeth, in 

 the Suffolk crag-pits. 



[Since the above paragraph was in type, I have had the desired 

 opportunity of comparing an upper molar tooth (fig. 9) from the Red 

 Crag of Suffolk, now in the British Museum, with those of the Tapirus 

 priscus, Kaup, and the comparison has afforded the anticipated 

 confirmation. — R. O., July 1856.] 



Genus Sus. 



Since my first determination of a fossil of the genus Sus in the Red 

 Crag of Suffolk*, viz. the external incisor of the lower jaw (p. 428, 

 fig. 173, Brit. Foss. Mamm.), several molar teeth of the Hog genus 

 have been obtained from that formation, and some of them in the 



* Annals of Natural History, vol. iv. 1840, p. 185. 



