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again cover it. The whole body has a peculiar, and by no means offen- 

 sive exhalation, somewhat resembling that noted of Arctictis Binturong. 

 Indeed, this is so tenacious, that although the skin of the individual above 

 described has been preserved more than a twelvemonth, and kept in a 

 strongly camphorated case, the odour is still perceptible. 



On the 27th of June 1845, the subject of the preceding notice 

 expired after two days' illness, from inflammation of the lungs, brought 

 on by the strong southerly winds, prevailing throughout the Straits of 

 Malacca during the season, which in man produce a slight influenza, 

 in animals frequently terminating fatally. The few adult Tapirs, 

 which occasionally have been kept in confinement by residents at Ma- 

 lacca, have acquired the character of being hardy animals. During the 

 short period that the present lived in my possession, no perceptible 

 change appeared in its growth, but a striking alteration took place in its 

 colours. Nearly all the white spots on the head, nape of the neck, and 

 back of the ears, gradually disappeared, and the upper part only of the 

 margin of the ears remained white, which colour it retains in the 

 adult animal. On the posterior part of the back and sides, the black 

 and white stripes were in a state of progressing obliteration, their hairs 

 had faded to a brownish colour, and were about being replaced by a 

 shorter and less dense fur of the fresh white hairs, which were to form 

 the characteristic permanent white mark, already appearing in outline, 

 when death terminated the unfinished process of nature. 



Vertebrae ; cervical seven, of which the atlas and epistropheus are the 

 largest ; dorsal twenty ; lumbar four ; sacral seven ; caudal three. 



Sternum. The anterior extremity cartilaginous, sharply keeled, arched, 

 continued over manubrium, composed of two rounded angularly -joined 

 pieces, as far as the second pair of ribs ; corpus composed of five pieces, 

 of which the two posterior, in a pair, are connected by cartilage. 



Costae verse, eight pairs; spuriae, twelve pairs = twenty pairs; the 

 last spurious rib is rudimentary, and absent on the left side. 



Femur, five and two-eighth inches long ; the large bony subtrochan- 

 teric process, described by Sir Everard Home, is developed, though partly 

 cartilaginous, measuring one inch in length at the base. 



Liver of mode/ate size, each lobe divided into two portions of nearly 

 equal size. 



Gall-bladder; none. 



