. The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ... A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . e shortest andscarcely reaching the ground in the ordinary standing feet with the typical perissodactyle arrangement of threetoes,—the middle one being the largest, the two others nearly arid upper lip elongated into a flexible, mobile snout or shortproboscis, near the end of which the nostrils are situated. Eyesrather small. Ears of moderate size, ovate, erect Tail very thick and but scantily covered with hair. The existing species of tapir may be grouped into twofle
. The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ... A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . e shortest andscarcely reaching the ground in the ordinary standing feet with the typical perissodactyle arrangement of threetoes,—the middle one being the largest, the two others nearly arid upper lip elongated into a flexible, mobile snout or shortproboscis, near the end of which the nostrils are situated. Eyesrather small. Ears of moderate size, ovate, erect Tail very thick and but scantily covered with hair. The existing species of tapir may be grouped into twoflections, thfe distinctive characters of which are onlylecognizable in the skoleton. (A) With a great anterior prolongation of the ossification of theimsal septuac(mesethmoid), extending in the adult far beyond the nasalbones,*and supported and embraced at the base by ascend-ing plates from the maxillae (genus Elasmognatkus, Gill).Two species, both from Central America, Tapir-us Vairdiand T. doivi. The former is found in Mexico, Honduras,Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama; the latter ii\. American Tapif, frOmrliving specimen in the London ZoologicalGardens. (jQatemaIa,\Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. (B) With ossifica-tion of the septum not extending farther forward than thenasal bones {Tapinis proper). Three species, T. indicus,the largest of the genus, from the Malay Peninsula (as farnorth as Tavoy and Mergui), Sumatra, and Borneo, dis-tinguished by its peculiar coloration,, the head, heck, for^and hind limbs being glossy black, and the intermediatepart j of the body white ; T. americonus (T. terrestris,Linn.), the conimon tapir of the forests and lowlands oiBrazil and Paraguay; and T. roulini, *h8 Pinchaque tapitof the high iregions of the Andes. All the Americanspecies are of a nearly uniform dark brown or blackislicolour when adult; but it is a curious circumstance thatwhenyoufig (and in this the Malay species conforms ^viththe others) they are conspicuously marked with spots an
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