949 MAMMALIA. 
SYNOPSIS OF THE GENERA. 
I. Fur erect, elastic, thick. Throat and hinder edge of tarsus 
hairy. Males with an odoriferous gland. Young spotted. 
1. Moscuus. Canines of males very long. 
Il. Fur close-pressed. Throat and hinder edge of tarsus bald. 
Males without any odoriferous gland. Young coloured 
like the adult. Throat white streaked. 
. Meminna. Throat hairy. Hinder edge of metatarsus covered 
with hair, naked on the outer side near the heel. Body 
spotted. Intermaxilla elongate. 
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3. Hyemoscuus. Chin and lips nakedish. Hinder edge of me- 
tatarsus hairy, naked on the outer side near the heel. In- 
termaxilla very short. 
4. Tracuuus. Throat and chin nakedish. Hinder edge of the 
metatarsus naked, callous. Fur soft. Intermaxilla elongate. 
I, Fur elastic, thick, brittle. Throat and hinder edge of the tar- 
sus covered with har. Males with an odoriferous gland. 
1. Moscuus. 
Muffle naked. Crumen none. Throat covered with hair. Fur 
very elastic, formed of erect, spreading, closely-packed, elastic, 
brittle, tubular, waved hair. Hinder edge of the tarsus covered 
with hair. Hoofs small, compressed, narrow, triangular, acute ; 
false hoofs elongated, well-developed. ‘Tail very short, rudiment- 
ary. Males with a large pouch, secreting musk, im the middle 
of the abdomen, and with a celluliferous and netted gland on the 
outer side of the thighs, secreting a serous fluid (see Brandt, 
Act. Acad. Petersb. 1836; Ann. Anat. & Phys. 1837, 283). 
Young spotted, which are often obliterated im the adult. 
Moschus, Gray, P. Z. Soc. 1846; Knowsley Menag.; List Mamm. 
BoM. 
Moschus, sp., Linn. S. N. ed. 6. 13. 1748, ed. 10. 66. 1758, ed. 12. 
91.1766; Erazleb. S. A. 319,1777; Storr, 1780. 
M. Moschiferus, Illiger, 1811; Lesson, Nov. Tab. R. A. 175. 
Tragulus, sp., Brisson, Reg. Anim. i. 67, 1762. 
The Musk are confined to the snowy regions, amid the 
glassy precipices of which they leap with a power and security 
far more than Caprine, though, owing to the unequal length of 
their legs, they can descend slopes only with difficulty, and fall- 
ing are caught; they cannot chmb at all as Goats do, and are 
solitary. They rut in winter, and produce young m May or June, 
