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Show 884 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE TAPIRIDIE. [NOV. 14, 3. TAPIRUS PINCHACUS. " Neck round, without fleshy crest. Body covered with very close blackish-brown hair, which is darker at the tips. Chin with a white spot, which is elongated behind, and bent up to the middle of the lip." Tapirus pinchaque, Roulin, Ann. Sci. Nat. xvii. 1829, p. 107; Wagner, Schreb. Saugeth. vi. p. 392 ; Goudot, Compt. Rend. A. S. Paris, xvi. 1843, p. 331. T. pinchacus, Blainv. Osteog. Ongulig. t. 1-5. T. roulini, Fischer, Syn. Mamm. p. 606 ; Giebel, Saugth. p. 182. T. villosus, Fischer. Hab. Cordilleras. Shull, as figured by De Blainville, depressed behind, the crest being nearly straight over the brain-case ; the nasal bone is elongate, acute over the hinder part of the orbit; the front edge of the cavity of the internal nostril is in a line with the back edge of the sixth or penultimate grinder in the complete series; the space between the canines and grinders is rather longer than the length of the outer side of the first two grinders ; the occipital end of the skull low, broader than high; the lower jaw is nearly straight beneath. I have never seen this species, and only know it from M. Roulin's description and the figures of the two skulls in De Blainville's ' Osteographie.' 2. RHINOCHCERUS. The internasal cartilages ossified at the hinder part; the bony plate extending above nearly the whole length of the nasal, not so far below; foramen maximum subquadrangular, large. Occipital crest very broad, flat-topped. Forehead and crown broad. Lower jaw straight beneath. Hab. Asia. Rhinochcerus, part., Wagner. 1. RHINOCHCT-RUS SUMATRANUS. The Kuda, Ayer. B.M. Fur very short, black ; back and sides white. Tapirus indicus, Desm. Mam. p. 411 ; F. Cuv. Oss. Foss. iii. p. 297, t. 69, 70 ; Giebel, Siiugeth. p. 183 ; Blainv. Osteogr. Ongulig. t. 1-5. T. sumatranus, Gray, Med. Repos. p. 1821. T. malayanus, Raffles, Linn. Trans, xiv. p. 270 ; Griffith, A. K. iii. t. ; Horsf. Zool. Journ., Zool. Java, t. ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones, B. M. p. 276. T. bicolor, A.Wagner, Schreb. Saugeth. vi. p. 400. Cuvier (Oss. Foss.) states that the Malay Tapir was discovered in India by M. Duvaucel. It does not inhabit India; and M. Duvaucel only knew the animal from the drawing of it that was in General Hardwicke's collection, from a specimen obtained by Major Farquhar in Malacca, and from a skull which he obtained from the same source. |