The genus _Tapir_ is wanting in Africa; but we find a species, _Tapirus Indicus_, in India and the Indian Archipelago, where it was first noticed by Diard and Duvaucel. These naturalists saw an individual of this species at Barrackpore, near Calcutta, whither he had been imported from the island of Sumatra. "I was much surprised," says Diard, "that so large an animal had not hitherto been discovered; but I was much more so, on seeing in the Asiatic Society's Museum the head of a similar animal, a native of Malacca, which had been sent to the Society, on the 29th of April 1806, by M. Faghuarie, governor of that province." This tapir is as common at Malacca as the rhinoceros and elephant. In size he closely approaches the common ass. He is black all over, except the ears, which are fringed with white, and on the back, which is of a pale gray. His habits are identical with those of the American tapirs, to be described hereafter. [Illustration: RHINOCEROS. African Phacocoerus (_Choeripotamus Africanus_).] * * * * * In the African plains, from Nubia and Senegal to the Cape, we meet with a Pachyderm intermediate between the hippopotamus and the wild boar: this is the _Phacocoerus_, which was known to the ancients, and designated by credulous Ælian the _Sus tetrakeros_, or "Boar with Four Horns." He has no horns, however, but only, beneath each ear, a horny protuberance, which greatly disfigures his head, and procures him the popular appellation of the "Warty Hog"--the "Bush Vark," or "Bush Hog" of South Africa (_Choeripotamus Africanus_). He has four projecting tusks, and long sharp tufted ears. His stature, his feet, his tail, the mane of stiff bristles which garnishes his neck, identify him with the wild boar; but his body, almost naked on the flanks and hinder part, likens him to an hippopotamus. He is gregarious, of fierce and brutal habits, and lives chiefly in the bushes or tall herbage. [Illustration: THE DAW AND THE QUAGGA.]