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Show 1889.] MR. F. E. BEDDARD ON TAPIRUS TERRESTRIS. 257 served brain, are somewhat clearer; in any case the individual variations are well known to be very great; hence it is necessary to examine a large number of brains before the arrangements of the sulci which characterize a particular species or genus can be detected. At the time that Krueg's important memoir upon the Ungulate brain was published (1879), there were but few figures of the Perissodactyle section of that group ; besides the Horse only the Indian Lateral view of Brain of Tapirus terrestris. The cross ( + ) is placed upon the same convolution as that in fig. 2. Rhinoceros and the American Tapir were at all known. At the present time we have also figures of the brains of Rhinoceros sondaicus (Beddard and Treves [1], pi. xxxvii.), Ceratorhinus sumatrensis (Garrod [7], pi. lxx.), Tapirus indicus (W'. N. Parker [10], pi. lviii.), besides the additional figures of Tapirus terrestris which are given in this paper. It seems therefore to be now more permissible to compare the American Tapir with its allies than when Krueg wrote. |
