TAPIIR. 
This singular animal forms a genus of itself ; 
there being only one species, which is entirely 
confined to South America, and consequently 
was unknown to the ancients. It is the Hip- 
popotamus Terrestris of Linnaeus, but the 
Tapir Americanus of Gmelin ; the Tapiirette 
Brasiliensibus, or Anta, of Marcgrave, Piso, 
Herrera, Ni^uhofF, Ray, and Klein ; the P^le- 
phant Hog, of Wafer; the Mountain Cow, 
of Dampier ; the Sus Aquations Multisulculus, 
ofBarrere; the Anta, or Grand Bete, of Gu- 
milla ; theTapira, and Danta, of Condamine, 
who says thai it is called Maipouri on the 
Guiana Coast, and Vagra at Peru ; the Mai- 
pouri, or Manipoure, of Barrere ; the Beori, 
of Prevot ; the Tapir, of BufFon ; and the 
Tapiir, or Long-Nosed Tapiir, of Pennant, 
and most other naturalists. Tapiir, or Tapir, 
is the Brasilian appellation of this animal. 
Pennant's description is as follows — 
" The nose extends far beyond the lower 
jaw. It is slender ; and forms, in the Male, 
a sort 
