262 BauiDiE. 



The young animal is described by Mr. V^rrill as above quoted; 

 and the description is printed ia the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History ' for 1867, xx. p. 232. 



• The animal is similar to the Brazilian Tapir externally ; indeed 

 all the naturalists and zoologists who have observed it at Costa Eica 

 regarded it as the same as that species until the skuU was examined ; 

 and it is said that one was exhibited alive in the Jardin d'Acclimata- 

 tion at Paris for some time as a Brazilian Tapir ; but it is easily 

 distinguishable by the bay cheek and white chest. 



A large number of fossil genera belong to this suborder, as Ano- 

 plotTierium, Xiphodon, Diehotrichws, Cainoiherium, Merycopotamus, 

 Adapis, Microehoerus, Hi/ppos, OhoUcotherium, Palceotherium, Ste- 

 reognathus, Oymototherium, LopJdodon, Thoraeotherion, Anthraeoihe- 

 rion, CorypJwdon ; but many of these are only known from a few 

 bones or teeth. 



Dr. Burmeister gives a restoration of Maorav/ihenia (Annales, 

 p. 252, t. 12) with a slender, short, cylindrical- nasal trunk; but 

 there does not appear to be anything in the form of the nasal 

 organs of the skull to give any authority for the existence of a pro- 

 boscis, not even such a small one as is figured. 



Suborders. SOLIDUNGULA. 



Nose round, soft, simple. Neck elongated. Upper lip 

 prehensile. Cutting-teeth in each jaw normal, erect. Ca- 

 nines normal or wanting. Toes single (formed of two united 

 together) and covered with a single hoof; no false hoofs. 

 Stomach simple. 



Equus, Linn. 



Solidungula, lUiger, Prodr. i. p. 84. 

 Solipedes (Solidipedes), Cwvier, Sig. Anim. 

 Eqmdae, Bandp. Prodr. Mastol. 



Fam. 2. EQUID^. 



Two middle toes soldered into one, covered with a single hoof ; 

 lateral toes subequal. Teeth 40 : cutting-teeth ^ ; canines \.\; 

 grinders | . f ; in milk series, grinders ^ .\; premolars f. Gullet and 

 stomach simple. Using the hind feet in defence. 



Quadrupeda SoUpeda seu Solidungula, Sai. Syn. p. 62. 

 Solidungula, Illiger. 

 Mam. Jumenta, Storr. 

 Solidipedes, Cwvier. 



Equidae, Gray, Lond. Med. Repos. xv. p. 307 ; Cat. Mamm. B. M. 

 p. 262. 



