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THE TAPIR OF THE ANDES. 
Tapirus pinchatjue . — Roulin. 
PLATE XXIX. 
Annalcs des Sciences Nat. 1829, f 26, vol. i. 
It had long been suspected by M. Roulin, from 
the accounts of Oviedo and P. de Aqueda, that a 
second species of Tapir existed in South America ; 
and from being described to possess a long and 
thick hair, that gentleman commenced his inquiries 
and researches regarding it, among the higher 
regions of the Andes. He was at last successful 
in procuring the animal, and has communicated a 
sketch and description in the Annales des Sciences 
Naturelles, which we have now used. 
The size of the adult is nearly similar to that of 
the other animal, but there is a general difference 
in the form and appearance of the two. The 
trunk, or elongated snout, does not exhibit upon 
the sides those wrinkles which shew that the 
animal keeps it always contracted. On the chin 
there is a white spot which is prolonged to the 
angle of the mouth, and returns upon the upper 
