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rleight at the ihooidefs - * . ,« "29 



Ditto, middle of the body, ~. . 3 i 



I , fore legs, ♦ 18 



DittOg ;■ hind legs, ^ ■ a -, 15 



Circumference ofthebod/g ■ » ,5 4 



Ditto, . neck, • '. , 2, 8 



DittOj '^_ head, . <. 2 10 



Ditfo, ; probofcisj about , » 7 



The following defcnption of a young animal, received fubfe- 

 quently from M^jor Farquhak, with fome other intereding 

 comraanications on fubje^b of natand hiftory-g will complete the 

 information v^e at prefent polfefs regarding the oriental Tapir. 

 The drawing which accompanies the following account of a 

 young Tapir, and which I have the plea Tare of offering to the ■ 

 ' acceptance of the Asiatic Society^ was taken from an animal about 

 four months old, &nd reprefents it as of a reddiOi brown colour, 

 fludded with white fpots. It was taken from one I had alive 

 in the houfe. After it has paffed the above period, it begins gra™ 

 dually to change colour until the age of fix months, by which 

 time it has ioH all its beautiful fpots, and attained the general 

 color- of the fall grown Tapir as leprefented in a drawing i 

 tranfmitted from hence to the Asiatic Soci^.ty in the beginning 

 of laft year. The Tapir, from which the prefent drawing was made, 

 I preferved alive in the houfe for upwards of fix months, when 

 it died fuddenly. i found it an animal poffeiled of a moil mild 

 and gentle difpolitpn. It became as tame and familiar as any 

 of the dogs about the hqufe, fed indifcriminatcly on' all kinds 

 of vegetables ;_, and ...was very fond @f attending at table 'to receive 



