CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



MOSCHUS MOSCHIFERUS. 



Moschus moschiferus, Linn. Syst. Nat. cd. 10, vol. i, p. 66, 1758, 

 ed. 12, vol. i, p. 91, 1766; Pallas, Spicil. Zool. fasc. xiii, p. 29, 

 pi. iv, 1780, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. p. 108, 1811; H. Smith, 

 Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, p. 61, vol. v, p. 307, 1827; 

 Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 63, List Mamm. Brit. Mas. 

 p. 172. 1843, Cat. Ungnlata Brit. Mus. p. 244, 1852, Cat. Btimi- 

 nants Brit. Mns. p. 96, 1872, Hand-List Ruminants Brit. Mus. 

 p. 166, 1873; Hittton, Joiirn. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. vi, p. 935, 

 1837 ; Hodgson, ibid. vol. xvi, p. 693, 1847, vol. xvii, pt. 2, p. 486, 

 1848 ; Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 328 ; Schrenk, Reis. u. 

 Forsch. Amurland, Siiugcth. p. 161, 1859 ; Raddc, Reis. Sild- 

 Ost. Siher., Sdugeth. p. 274, 1862 ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. 

 Brit. Mns. p. 269, 1862 ; Blyth, Cat. Mamm. Mus. Asiat. Soc. 

 Bengal, p. 157, 1863 ; Milne-Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. 

 ser. 4, vol. ii. p. 119, 1874, Rech. Mamm. p. 176, 1874 ; Jerdon, 

 Mamm. India, p. 266, 1867 ; Kinloch, Large Game Shooting, 

 p. 41, 1869 ; David, Arch. Mus. Paris, vol. vii. Bull. p. 75, 1871 ; 

 Broohe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 522 ; Floiver, ibid. 1875, p. 159 ; 

 Przewalsli, Reise Mongolia, pp. 1Y4 and 240, 1875 ; Garrod, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 287 ; Lydckker, Journ. Asiat. Soc. 

 Bengal, vol. xlvi, pt. 2, p. 286, 1877, Horns and Hoofs, p. 330, 

 1893, Deer of All Lands, p. 311, 1898, Great and Small Game of 

 India, etc. p. 247, 1900, Great and Small Game of Europe, etc. 

 p. 268, 1901, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 266, 1907, Cat. 

 Hume Bequest Brit. Mns. p. 40, 1913 ; Scully, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1881, p. 209; Forbes, ibid. 1882, p. 636; Flower and Garson, 

 Cat. Osteol. Mus. R. Coll. Surg. pt. ii, p. 283, 1884 ; Sterndale, 

 Mamm. India, p. 494, 1884 ; Biiehner, Melanges Biol. vol. xiii, 

 p. 163, 1890 ; W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. ii, p. 172, 

 1891 ; Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Mamm. p. 552, 1891 ; 

 Flower and. Lydekker, Study of Mammals, p. 314,1891 ; Pousar- 

 gues, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, vol. xi, p. 189, 1898 ; Allen, Bull. 

 Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. xix, p. 129, 1903 ; Elliot, Cat. Mamm. 

 Field Mus. {Zool. Pub. Field Mus. vol. viii) p. 38, 1907 ; Ward, 

 Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 114, 1910, ed. 7, p. 112. 1914; 

 Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 937 ; Siilima, Nasa ochota, 

 St. Pettrsb. vol. xlviii, p. 40, 1910 ; Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1911, p. 150 ; Cabrera, Cat. Met. Mam. Mus. Madrid, p. 129, 

 1912 ; Aoki, Annot. Zool. Japon. vol. viii, p. 344, 1913 ; Dods- 

 worth, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. xxii, p. 748, 1914. 



Musk-Deer ; Kastura. 



Typical locality " Tatary, approaching China." 

 Typically height at shoulder about 20 inches, at rump 

 2 inches more. General colour some shade of rich dark 

 brown, more or less mottled and speckled with light grey, 

 the individual hairs being white for about three-quarters of 

 their length, then with a white band, followed by a blackish 

 tip ; under-parts and inner side of limbs paler ; chin, inner 



