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264 Catalogue of Mammalia inhabiting [No. 172. 



Dimensions. 



Length from the apex of the nose to the root of the tail, 1 foot 10 inches. 



,, of the head, . . 



,, of the tail, 



„ of the ear, 

 Diameter of the head from vertex, 

 Height of the shoulder, 



,, „ „ haunch, 



The animal, from which a sketch was taken on its arrival at Pinang, 

 was the property of the Rev. R. Panting, a. m. The skin, imperfectly 

 preserved, has lately been deposited in the Museum of the Asiatic 

 Society. 



On the 16th of May 1845, I obtained a living young female Tapir, 

 captured in Keddah a few days previously. Though still in its infan- 

 tile garb, it was older than the preceding. The ground colour was a 

 brownish-black, like worn-out velvet ; the spots, stripes, and the poste- 

 rior part of the abdomen were of a dirty- white. The separate hairs were 

 longer and curly ; the hairy ears retained numerous white spots on the 

 margins and external surface. The lips were blackish, with numerous 

 short distant bristles, which also appeared round the nostrils, on the 

 ridge of the nose, above and below the eyes, on the cheeks and on the 

 throat. Two black mamma? were situated between the hind legs, three 

 and a half inches behind the large naked cicatrix of Funiculus umbilicalis. 



Dim 



ENSIONS. 



Length from the apex of the nose to the root of the tail, 3 feet 4f inches. 



,, of the head, . . . . . . . . 1 ,, 



„ of the tail „ 1 ~ » 



„ of the ear, „ 5 i „ 



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Diameter of the head from vertex,. . . . . . ,, 5 * 



Height of the shoulder, . . . . . . . . 1 „ 4 



„ haunch, . . . . . . . . 1 „ 6 



Greatest circumference round the body, . . . . 2 „ 6 



Circumference at the root of the ear, . . . . ,, 6 



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